Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

Which creature proffered its assistance to the afflicted Fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: proffer, afflict, assist · To what, where: assistance, afflicted Fox

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proffered	nsubj
3	proffered	proffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 assistance	nmod:poss
5	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proffered	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Fox	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fox	det
8	afflicted	afflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Fox	amod
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proffered	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 proffered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	proffer	past	which creature	creature's assistance	the afflicted Fox	vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme to fox=Recipient
2	afflict	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	assist		creature			nom assistance «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Hedgehog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The old Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Badger	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Badger	amod
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The Hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	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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