Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…

Which creature was crushed to death by a heavy wagon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: crush · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 2 of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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	4 crushed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crushed	aux:pass
4	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crushed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 wagon	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wagon	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wagon	amod
10	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crushed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 crushed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past · passive		which creature				to death result; by a heavy wagon	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result

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 pond frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the gully frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	gully	gully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the frog that lived in the gully by the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 frog	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 gully	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gully	det
7	gully	gully	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the frog			the gully		by the road	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gully=Location

Option 4

the tiny frog who had dwelt by the country road in the gully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 frog	amod
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 dwelt	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dwelt	aux
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 frog	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 road	compound
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 gully	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gully	det
13	gully	gully	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past · perfect	the tiny frog			the gully		by the country road	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by road=Location

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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