Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…
What does the Ass in the sacred procession wrongly attribute to himself?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Ass, himself, sacred procession
This is exam question 2 of lesson 366 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a sly Fox plots to trap his foolish Ass friend in a pit for a hungry Lion» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 procession | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 procession | det |
| 7 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 procession | amod |
| 8 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obl |
| 9 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 10 attribute | advmod |
| 10 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 procession | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 does | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the Ass | himself = he | the sacred procession attribute | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Eventuality |
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 · ← Mova's choice
The gifts from the crowd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gifts | det |
| 2 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 crowd | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crowd | det |
| 5 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gifts | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The reverence paid to the Image he carries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reverence | det |
| 2 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carries | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reverence | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Image | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Image | det |
| 6 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carries | nsubj |
| 8 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | participle | the reverence not said here | to the Image | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the reverence | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Their honour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 honour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honour | Their = they | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
The god's own power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 power | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 god | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 power | amod |
| 5 | power | power | 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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