Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

To whom did the Oaks address their formal complaint regarding the axe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oaks · What happens: address, regard, complain · To what, where: formal complaint

This is exam question 1 of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 address	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Oaks	det
5	Oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 address	nsubj
6	address	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 complaint	nmod:poss
8	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 complaint	amod
9	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 address	obj
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 axe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 axe	det
12	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 address	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	address	past · do-support	the Oaks	Oaks's formal complaint	regard the axe	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Destination
2	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	complain		Oaks = oak			nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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

to Jupiter, the ruler of the gods, who sat on Olympus high above

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	2 Jupiter	case
2	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ruler	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ruler	det
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jupiter	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 gods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gods	det
8	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruler	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ruler	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 Olympus	case
13	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 above	advmod
15	above	above	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the ruler of the gods			Olympus		above property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on olympus=Location

Option 2

to the Woodcutter, who had come to chop them down in the first place

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 Woodcutter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodcutter	det
3	Woodcutter	Woodcutter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 come	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 Woodcutter	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chop	mark
9	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chop	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 chop	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 place	amod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the Woodcutter						tree rules
2	chop down	to-infinitive	the Woodcutter not said here	them = they		the first place			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in place=Location

Option 3

to Neptune, god of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	2 Neptune	case
2	Neptune	Neptune	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 god	punct
4	god	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Neptune	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 god	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to Jupiter, the ruler of the gods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	2 Jupiter	case
2	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ruler	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ruler	det
5	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Jupiter	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 gods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gods	det
8	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ruler	nmod

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

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