Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

What event caused the Lamp to be extinguished in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: event · What happens: cause, extinguish · To what, where: Lamp, narrative

This is exam question 2 of lesson 393 «Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a bird begs for its life, a Cock argues, and many short animal tales follow» 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	3 caused	obj
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lamp	det
5	Lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 extinguished	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 extinguished	aux:pass
8	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Lamp	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 narrative	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 extinguished	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	event	the Lamp					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer what=Theme lamp=Eventuality
2	extinguish	to-infinitive · passive	event not said here	the Lamp not said here		the narrative			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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

A sudden puff of wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puff	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puff	amod
3	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puff	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	puff			wind					nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A sudden blast of cold air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 blast	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blast	amod
3	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blast			cold air					nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A quick breath of breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 breath	det
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breath	amod
3	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 breeze	case
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breath	nmod

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

Option 4

A gust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gust	det
2	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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