Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…
To what depth was the Fox conveyed by the force of the current?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: Fox
This is exam question 1 of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» 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 | _ | 3 depth | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 depth | nsubj |
| 3 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fox | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Fox | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Fox | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 force | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 force | det |
| 10 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 current | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 current | det |
| 13 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 force | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fox | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Fox | to depth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | convey | participle | the Fox not said here | by the force of the current | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Into a very deep ravine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 5 ravine | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ravine | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 deep | advmod |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ravine | amod |
| 5 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Under a big willow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 4 willow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 willow | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 willow | amod |
| 4 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Far downstream into a wide marsh full of reeds and mud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 downstream | advmod |
| 2 | downstream | downstream | ADV | _ | 7 full | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 marsh | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 marsh | det |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 marsh | amod |
| 6 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 downstream | obl |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 reeds | case |
| 9 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mud | cc |
| 11 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reeds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Along a muddy ditch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Along | along | ADP | _ | 4 ditch | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ditch | det |
| 3 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ditch | amod |
| 4 | ditch | ditch | 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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