Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Which proud animal was noticed by the royal Cat in the procession described?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: royal Cat · What happens: notice, describe · To what, where: proud animal, royal Cat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 animal	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noticed	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noticed	aux:pass
5	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 Cat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Cat	det
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Cat	amod
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noticed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 procession	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 procession	det
12	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Cat	nmod
13	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Cat	acl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 noticed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past · passive	the royal Cat in the procession	which proud animal					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	describe	participle		the royal Cat in the procession not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

the proud Rat who was showing off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Rat	amod
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 showing	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 showing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 showing	aux
6	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 showing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	the proud Rat						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the Snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Snake	det
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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