Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

What was the principal grievance of the Ass against his final master?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: principal grievance

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 grievance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grievance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grievance	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grievance	amod
5	grievance	grievance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ass	det
8	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grievance	nmod
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 master	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
11	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 master	amod
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Ass	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 grievance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal grievance				of the Ass against his final master	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

that the tanner would tan his hide after death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 tan	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanner	det
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tan	aux
5	tan	tan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hide	nmod:poss
7	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tan	would	the tanner	tanner's hide			after death		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient

Option 2

that the tanner would tan his hide even after his death and burial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 tan	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanner	det
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tan	aux
5	tan	tan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hide	nmod:poss
7	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 death	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 death	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 death	nmod:poss
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tan	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burial	cc
13	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tan	would	the tanner	tanner's hide			after tanner's death and burial		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient
2	die		tanner						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

that the master would sell him to a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 sell	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	aux
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	iobj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 farmer	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	would	the master		him = he			to a farmer	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to farmer=Recipient

Option 4

that the tanner would skin his body first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 skin	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanner	det
3	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 skin	aux
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 skin	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 skin	advmod

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

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