Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…
Which object did the Ass discover in the forest and wear?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, Ass · What happens: do, discover, wear · To what, where: forest
This is exam question 1 of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discover | nsubj |
| 6 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 discover | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wear | cc |
| 11 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 discover | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | discover | present | the Ass | the forest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wear | infinitive | the Ass not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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 golden skin of a huge old Lion from the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 skin | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 skin | amod |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lion | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Lion | amod |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 skin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the skin of a Lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skin | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a lion mane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mane | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mane | compound |
| 3 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the skin of a Lion and its mane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skin | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Lion | det |
| 5 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 skin | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mane | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mane | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lion | conj |
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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