Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

What did the Lion fail to obtain after his long pursuit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: his · What happens: do, obtain, pursue · To what, where: Lion fail

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fail	det
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fail	compound
5	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 obtain	mark
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fail	acl
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 pursuit	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pursuit	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pursuit	amod
11	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obtain	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past		the Lion fail		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality
2	obtain	to-infinitive		the Lion fail not said here	after his long pursuit	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	pursue		his = he			nom pursuit «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the swift Hart that ran through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swift	det
2	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
3	Hart	Hart	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 swift	appos
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the swift			the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Hart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hart	det
2	Hart	Hart	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a Doe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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