Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…

Which response did the Merchant make to the Ass's second deliberate fall?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: response · What happens: make

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 response	det
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Merchant	det
5	Merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	13 fall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ass	det
9	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fall	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Ass	case
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 fall	amod
12	deliberate	deliberate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fall	amod
13	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	which response					to the Ass's second deliberate fall	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

He sold him to a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	He	him = he	a farmer				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to farmer=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He drove the Ass back and loaded him with sponges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ass	det
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loaded	cc
7	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loaded	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 sponges	case
10	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive back	past	He	the Ass					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme
2	load	past	He not said here		him = he			with sponges	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with sponge=Theme

Option 3

He let him rest in the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stable	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stable	det
7	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	He	him = he					tree rules
2	rest	infinitive	him = he not said here			the stable			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stable=Location

Option 4

He beat him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	He	him = he					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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