Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

With reference to the text, what reason did the Judge give for awarding the honey to the Bees?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: text, Judge · What happens: reason, do, give, award · To what, where: honey, Bees

This is exam question 2 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	9 did	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 reason	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reason	nsubj
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 text	conj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Judge	det
11	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
12	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 did	ccomp
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 awarding	mark
14	awarding	award	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 give	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 honey	det
16	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 awarding	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Bees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Bees	det
19	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 awarding	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reason		the text and reason				tree rules
2	do	past				with reference to the text and reason	tree rules
3	give	present	the Judge				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	award	gerund	the Judge not said here	the honey	the Bees		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent honey=Theme to bee=Goal

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

The Wasps had stung the Bees too often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wasps	det
2	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 stung	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stung	aux
4	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bees	det
6	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stung	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	4 stung	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past · perfect	the Wasps	the Bees				often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bee=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Bees had built a honey comb, which the Wasps could not do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bees	det
2	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 built	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	aux
4	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 comb	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 comb	compound
7	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 do	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wasps	det
11	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 do	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 do	advmod
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 comb	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		the Bees					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary comb=Product
2	not do	could	the Wasps	a honey comb					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

Option 3

The Bees had more honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bees	det
2	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 honey	amod
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Bees	more honey					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient

Option 4

The Bees were the older tribe of the hive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bees	det
2	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tribe	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tribe	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tribe	det
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 tribe	amod
6	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hive	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hive	det
9	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tribe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Bees	the older tribe				of the hive	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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