Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

By what means did the Hound ultimately abandon the pursuit of the Hare?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: mean, do, abandon, pursue · To what, where: Hound, pursuit, Hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 means	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hound	det
6	Hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	8 abandon	advmod
8	abandon	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pursuit	det
10	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandon	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Hare	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hare	det
13	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pursuit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the Hound		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Eventuality
3	abandon	present	the pursuit of the Hare	ultimately property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme pursuit=Source
4	pursue		the Hare		nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

by giving up after a long run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 giving	compound:prt
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 run	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 run	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 run	amod
7	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund					after a long run		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

by giving up after a long run through the meadows and the marsh that wore him out

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 giving	mark
2	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 giving	compound:prt
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 run	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 run	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 run	amod
7	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 meadows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meadows	det
10	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 giving	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 marsh	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marsh	det
13	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meadows	conj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 wore	nsubj
15	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 marsh	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wore	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 wore	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund				the meadows and the marsh	after a long run		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear out	past	the marsh	him = he					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

by being called back by his master who had seen the hare disappear over the hill

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 called	mark
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	back	back	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 master	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 seen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 master	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hare	det
12	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj
13	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	xcomp
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hill	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	gerund · passive	his master			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · perfect	his master	the hare		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus
3	disappear	infinitive	his master not said here		the hill	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

by tiring on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 tiring	mark
2	tiring	tire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tiring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tire	gerund				the way			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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