Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Which quality did the Fox claim to possess in greater measure?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality · What happens: do, possess · To what, where: Fox claim, greater measure
This is exam question 3 of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | 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 | 6 claim | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 claim | compound |
| 6 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 possess | mark |
| 8 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 claim | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 measure | case |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 measure | amod |
| 11 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possess | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which quality | the Fox claim | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | possess | to-infinitive | which quality not said here | the Fox claim not said here | greater measure | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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
beauty of face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 face | case |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 beauty | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
wit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
charm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
beauty of mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 mind | case |
| 3 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 beauty | nmod |
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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