Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

What comment did the Fox address to the Ass after the bray?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: comment · What happens: do · To what, where: Fox address

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 comment	det
2	comment	comment	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	6 address	det
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 address	compound
6	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Ass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ass	det
9	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 bray	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bray	det
12	bray	bray	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what comment	the Fox address			after the bray	to the Ass	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Eventuality

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 right answer

that he should have kept silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 kept	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	aux
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · perfect · passive		he				silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

that he should have kept silent and never brayed at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 kept	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	aux
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 brayed	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 brayed	advmod
9	brayed	bray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kept	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 brayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · perfect · passive		he				silent property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not bray	participle						at all	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at all=Stimulus

Option 3

he ought to stay mute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mute	mute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	ought	he					mute property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he ought to have hushed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hushed	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hushed	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	5 hushed	mark
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hushed	aux
5	hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 hushed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hush up	ought · perfect	he						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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