Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

What moral is appended to the narrative of the race?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: append · To what, where: moral

This is exam question 3 of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» 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	4 appended	obj
2	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appended	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 appended	aux:pass
4	appended	append	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 narrative	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrative	det
7	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appended	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 race	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 race	det
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 narrative	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 appended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	append	present · passive		moral				to the narrative of the race	tree rules

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

Slow but steady wins the race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wins	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 steady	cc
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Slow	conj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Slow	the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

Option 2

Never laugh at slower animals, since even the swift can lose if they stop to nap

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 laugh	advmod
2	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 animals	case
4	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laugh	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lose	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 lose	mark
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 swift	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 swift	det
10	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lose	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	aux
12	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 laugh	conj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 stop	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stop	nsubj
15	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lose	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 nap	mark
17	nap	nap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not laugh	imperative	you not said here	at slower animals	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	can	the swift		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop a condition, not said to happen	present	animals = animal		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	nap	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Speed wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wins	compound
2	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Pride always goes before a fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 fall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fall	det
6	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Pride			a fall		always property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

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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