Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

Of what physical condition was the Stork when he was captured?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: physical condition · What happens: be, capture · To what, where: Stork

This is exam question 2 of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 captured	obl
3	physical	physical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 condition	amod
4	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Stork	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Stork	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Stork	det
7	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 captured	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 captured	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 captured	aux:pass
11	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 captured	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	physical condition	the Stork					tree rules
2	capture	past · passive		Stork					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of what=Source

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

a broken wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wing	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wing	amod
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a fractured leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leg	det
2	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leg	amod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fracture	participle							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a fractured leg and a torn wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leg	det
2	fractured	fracture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 leg	amod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wing	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wing	det
6	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wing	amod
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leg	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fracture	participle							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

a bruised neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 neck	det
2	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 neck	amod
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bruise	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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