Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

What did the dying Lion declare that he had reluctantly brooked from the brave?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dying Lion, Lion · What happens: die, declare, brook · To what, where: brave

This is exam question 4 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	6 declare	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declare	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
4	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Lion	amod
5	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declare	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 brooked	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brooked	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brooked	aux
10	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	_	11 brooked	advmod
11	brooked	brook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 declare	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 brave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brave	det
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brooked	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	die	gerund				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	declare speech: other	past · do-support	the dying Lion			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
3	brook	past · perfect	Lion	the brave	reluctantly property	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

the cowardice of the wolves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cowardice	det
2	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cowardice	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the insults of the brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 insults	det
2	insults	insult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 brave	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brave	det
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 insults	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the insults offered by the brave ones of his own herd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 insults	det
2	insults	insult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 insults	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 ones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 offered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 herd	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 herd	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 herd	amod
11	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	participle		the insults not said here				by the brave ones of his own herd	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 4

the mocking insults that the brave hunters offered him in the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mocking	det
2	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insults	nsubj
3	insults	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 offered	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunters	det
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hunters	amod
7	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 offered	nsubj
8	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 insults	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 offered	iobj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	present	the mocking						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	offer	past	the brave hunters		mocking	the field			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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