Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

To what did the Miser attribute the loss of his buried treasure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: loss · What happens: do, bury, treasure · To what, where: Miser attribute

This is exam question 1 of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 attribute	det
5	Miser	Miser	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 attribute	compound
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 loss	det
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 treasure	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 treasure	nmod:poss
11	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 treasure	amod
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Miser attribute	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attribute=Eventuality
2	bury	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	treasure		loss		nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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

To a thief who had stolen his gold from the buried chest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 thief	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stolen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	aux
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thief	acl:relcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gold	nmod:poss
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 chest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chest	det
11	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 chest	amod
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect	a thief	his gold		the buried chest			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent gold=Theme from chest=Source
2	bury	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To the theft of his gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 theft	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 theft	det
3	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gold	nmod:poss
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 theft	nmod

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

Option 3

To a fire in the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 barn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fire	nmod

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

Option 4

To a flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 flood	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flood	det
3	flood	flood	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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