Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

Which moral conclusion does the fable draw concerning the reasoning of the innocent?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moral conclusion, fable draw · What happens: do, concern · To what, where: fable draw, reasoning

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 does	obj
2	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 conclusion	amod
3	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 draw	det
6	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	compound
7	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 draw	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 reasoning	det
10	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 innocent	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 innocent	det
13	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reasoning	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	moral conclusion	the fable draw					tree rules
2	concern	gerund	the fable draw not said here	the reasoning of the innocent					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reasoning=Experiencer

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

They ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignore	nsubj
2	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	They	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

The unjust will not heed it, however calmly it is spoken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 unjust	det
2	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heed	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 heed	advmod
5	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spoken	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	9 calmly	advmod
9	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	12 spoken	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spoken	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spoken	aux:pass
12	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not heed	future	the unjust	it					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	speak speech: other	present · passive		it				calmly property	tree rules

Option 3

The bully rejects the plea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bully	det
2	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rejects	nsubj
3	rejects	reject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plea	det
5	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rejects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	present	the bully	the plea					vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plea=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The unjust will not heed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 unjust	det
2	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heed	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 heed	advmod
5	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not heed	future	the unjust	it					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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