Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…
Which of the following describes the provision made for the Ass within the stable?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, make · To what, where: provision
This is exam question 1 of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 provision | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 provision | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provision | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 provision | case |
| 5 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 provision | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provision | det |
| 7 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 provision | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Ass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ass | det |
| 11 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 stable | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stable | det |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 provision | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the provision | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | participle | the provision not said here | for the Ass; within the stable | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for ass=Asset |
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 warm stall with plenty of oats, hay and water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stall | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stall | amod |
| 3 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plenty | case |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stall | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oats | case |
| 7 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hay | punct |
| 9 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stall | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 water | cc |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stall | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bed of clean straw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 straw | case |
| 4 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 straw | amod |
| 5 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a comfortable stable stocked with food and a warm bed each night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 stable | det |
| 2 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stable | amod |
| 3 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | stocked | stock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stable | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stocked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bed | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bed | amod |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stocked | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stock | participle | a comfortable stable not said here | night | with food and a warm bed | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with food=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
plenty of oats and hay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 oats | case |
| 3 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 plenty | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hay | cc |
| 5 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 oats | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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