Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…

Which of the following accurately identifies the animal that the Eagle accepted as her mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: follow, identify, accept · To what, where: animal

This is exam question 4 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	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 accepted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Eagle	det
11	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 accepted	nsubj
12	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 animal	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 mate	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mate	nmod:poss
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accepted	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the animal	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3	accept	past	the Eagle	the animal not said here	as Eagle's mate	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme as mate=Attribute

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

the Raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Raven	det
2	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a Hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Hen	det
2	Hen	Hen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Kite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Kite	det
2	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	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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