Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…

Which of the following is the moral drawn at the close of the Boy and the Nettle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, draw, be

This is exam question 3 of lesson 375 «Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag borrows wheat on the Wolf's word» 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	11 close	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	11 close	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 close	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 close	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 close	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 close	det
7	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 close	amod
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 close	amod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 close	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 close	det
11	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Boy	det
14	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 close	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Nettle	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Nettle	det
17	Nettle	Nettle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Boy	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	participle		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	of the moral drawn close; of the Boy and the Nettle	tree rules

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

Act with care and think before you speak.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 care	case
3	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Act	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 think	cc
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Act	conj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 speak	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 speak	nsubj
8	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 think	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Act	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present							vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	present	you						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Never give up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 give	compound:prt
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 do	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 might	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 might	det:predet
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 might	nmod:poss
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support		Whatever					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

Option 4

Be kind to all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 kind	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to all; kind property	tree rules

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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