Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

To what cause does the narrator attribute the boar's escape from the Old Hound?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator, boar · What happens: attribute, escape · To what, where: escape

This is exam question 1 of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 attribute	obl
3	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 attribute	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	nsubj
7	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boar	det
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 escape	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 boar	case
11	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 Hound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Hound	det
14	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Hound	amod
15	Hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attribute	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 attribute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attribute	present · do-support	the narrator	the boar's escape				from the Old Hound	tree rules
2	escape		the boar						nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 aging of the old hound's legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 aging	det
2	aging	aging	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 legs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hound	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hound	amod
6	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 legs	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hound	case
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 aging	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the decay of the hound's teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 decay	det
2	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hound	det
5	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 hound	case
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 decay	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decay		the hound's teeth						nom decay «process intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

the boar's fierce and sudden strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boar	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strength	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boar	case
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strength	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sudden	cc
6	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fierce	conj
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

his speed

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 speed	nmod:poss
2	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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