Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

What was the Farmer's final judgement concerning the Stork?

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

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Farmer	det
4	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 judgement	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Farmer	case
6	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 judgement	amod
7	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 judgement	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Stork	det
10	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 concerning	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Farmer's final judgement						tree rules
2	concern	gerund	the Farmer's final judgement not said here	the Stork					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stork=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

that he must perish with the Cranes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 perish	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perish	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 perish	aux
4	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Cranes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cranes	det
7	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 perish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	must	he					with the Cranes	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that he must stay caught in the net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 caught	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 net	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 net	det
8	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	must · passive		he		the net			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

that he should be spared his life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 spared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spared	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spared	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spared	aux:pass
5	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	should · passive		he					vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset

Option 4

that he must perish with the Cranes at the farmer's hand tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 perish	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 perish	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 perish	aux
4	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Cranes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cranes	det
7	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 perish	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 farmer	case
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perish	obl
13	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perish	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	must	he			the farmer's hand	tomorrow	with the Cranes	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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