Exam question 3 · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…
Which vessel, having consented to accompany its companion, was reduced to fragments after the first jolt?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vessel · What happens: have, consent, accompany, reduce · To what, where: companion, vessel, fragments
This is exam question 3 of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 vessel | acl |
| 5 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 accompany | mark |
| 7 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 consented | xcomp |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 companion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accompany | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 vessel | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reduced | aux:pass |
| 12 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fragments | case |
| 14 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reduced | obl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 jolt | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jolt | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 jolt | amod |
| 18 | jolt | jolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reduced | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 reduced | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | which vessel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consent | participle | which vessel not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accompany | to-infinitive | which vessel not said here | vessel's companion | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reduce | past · passive | which vessel | after the first jolt | to fragments goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to fragment=Goal |
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
The Earthen Pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pot | det |
| 2 | Earthen | Earthen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pot | compound |
| 3 | Pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The Earthen Pot, having agreed to travel with its companion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pot | det |
| 2 | Earthen | Earthen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pot | compound |
| 3 | Pot | Pot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pot | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 agreed | aux |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 travel | mark |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 agreed | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 companion | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 travel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | gerund · perfect | the Earthen Pot | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Earthen Pot not said here | with Pot's companion | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The Brass Pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pot | det |
| 2 | Brass | Brass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pot | compound |
| 3 | Pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brass pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pot | compound |
| 2 | pot | pot | 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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