Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

According to the closing moral, what does a fool's speech reveal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: closing moral · What happens: accord, close, do · To what, where: speech reveal

This is exam question 4 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 moral	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moral	det
4	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 moral	amod
5	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 moral	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fool	det
10	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reveal	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 fool	case
12	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reveal	compound
13	reveal	reveal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 moral	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	close	gerund			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	do	present	the closing moral	a fool's speech reveal	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reveal=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

his spirit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spirit	nmod:poss
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his real self

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 self	nmod:poss
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 self	amod
3	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his true nature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nature	nmod:poss
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nature	amod
3	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

his fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fate	nmod:poss
2	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fate		his = he						nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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