Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

In the narrative, what pretext did the Wolf first advance for seizing the Lamb?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: seize · To what, where: Lamb, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 367 «Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excuses to eat a Lamb» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 narrative	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 narrative	det
3	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seizing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 narrative	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 did	obj
6	pretext	pretext	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seizing	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 advance	det
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 advance	compound
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 advance	amod
11	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 seizing	mark
13	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Lamb	det
15	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seizing	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 seizing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past · do-support		the Lamb		the narrative			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme

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 right answer

That she was muddying his stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 muddying	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 muddying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 muddying	aux
4	muddying	muddy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stream	nmod:poss
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muddying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	muddy	past · progressive	That	his stream					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stream=Patient

Option 2

Mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 lies	nmod:poss
2	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie		Her = she						nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That she was drinking his water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 drinking	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drinking	aux
4	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 water	nmod:poss
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · progressive	That	his water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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