Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

With reference to the text, which animal was sacrificed to the gods by the assembly of the beasts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: assembly · What happens: sacrifice · To what, where: gods

This is exam question 1 of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sacrificed	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 animal	punct
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 animal	det
8	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 text	appos
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sacrificed	aux:pass
10	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 gods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gods	det
13	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sacrificed	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 assembly	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 assembly	det
16	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sacrificed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 beasts	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beasts	det
19	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 assembly	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sacrificed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sacrifice	past · passive	the assembly of the beasts		the gods			with reference to the text	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=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

The Goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Goat	det
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Ass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The Stag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The Bull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bull	det
2	Bull	bull	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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