Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

What was the Fisherman's decision regarding the small fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, regard · To what, where: decision

This is exam question 3 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	PRON	PronType=Int	6 decision	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decision	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fisherman	det
4	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 decision	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Fisherman	case
6	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fish	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fish	amod
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decision	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 decision	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Fisherman's decision				regard the small fish	tree rules
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he placed it in his basket

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	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 basket	nmod:poss
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	he	it		his basket			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination

Option 2

he dropped it in the sea

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	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it		the sea			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sea=Destination

Option 3

he placed it carefully in his basket and went home

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	2 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 placed	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 basket	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 basket	nmod:poss
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	he	it		his basket		carefully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination
2	go	past	he not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he put it into the basket with the others caught that day

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	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	with	with	SCONJ	_	10 caught	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	advcl
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	he	it		the basket			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	catch	past	the others				day		vn get-13.5.1 «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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