Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

By what means did the Beetle avenge the disrespect shown to her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, avenge, show · To what, where: Beetle, disrespect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 avenge	advcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Beetle	det
6	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disrespect	det
9	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 avenge	obj
10	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 disrespect	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shown	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 avenge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the Beetle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Eventuality
3	avenge	present	the disrespect		tree rules
4	show	participle	the disrespect not said here	Beetle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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

By stealing the Eagle's young ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 stealing	mark
2	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stealing	obj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Eagle	case
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		young ones	the Eagle				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Beneficiary one=Theme

Option 2

By flying up to the Eagle's nest and pushing out every single egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 flying	mark
2	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 flying	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 nest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nest	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Eagle	case
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flying	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pushing	cc
10	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 flying	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 pushing	compound:prt
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 egg	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 egg	amod
14	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	gerund				the Eagle's nest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
2	push out	gerund		every single egg					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 3

By rolling all of the Eagle's precious eggs out of the nest and onto the ground

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 rolling	mark
2	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rolling	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Eagle	case
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 all	nmod
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 nest	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 nest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nest	det
13	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolling	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ground	cc
15	onto	onto	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund		all		the nest and the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent all=Theme out nest=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By rolling the Eagle's eggs from the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 rolling	mark
2	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eggs	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Eagle	case
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rolling	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 nest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund		the Eagle's eggs		the nest			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent egg=Theme from nest=Trajectory

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