Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

What question did the Camel-driver put to his beast concerning the journey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: question, beast · What happens: do, put, concern · To what, where: Camel driver, journey

This is exam question 3 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
5	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Camel	punct
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 driver	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 beast	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beast	nmod:poss
11	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
12	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 beast	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 journey	det
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 concerning	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what question	the Camel driver		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Eventuality
2	put	participle		the Camel driver not said here	to question's beast	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	concern	gerund	question's beast not said here	the journey		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus journey=Experiencer

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

Whether he preferred going up or down hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 preferred	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 preferred	nsubj
3	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 preferred	xcomp
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 down	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 up	conj
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go up not said to happen	gerund	he not said here	hill					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Whether he liked the hill more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 liked	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hill	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	he	the hill					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hill=Theme

Option 3

Which way he wanted to walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 way	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	which way not said here					tree rules
2	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	which way not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Up or down?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 down	cc
3	down	down	ADV	_	1 Up	conj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Up	punct

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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