Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

Which creature does the Jackdaw seek to imitate in order to gain admission to the cote?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: seek, imitate, gain · To what, where: order, admission

This is exam question 1 of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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	6 seek	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seek	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Jackdaw	det
5	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seek	nsubj
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 imitate	mark
8	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seek	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imitate	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 gain	mark
12	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 imitate	advcl
13	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gain	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 cote	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cote	det
16	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 admission	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 seek	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	present · do-support	which creature				tree rules
2	imitate not said to happen	to-infinitive	which creature not said here		order		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	gain	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	admission		to the cote result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient admission=Extent to cote=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

The gentle Dove among the flock of doves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dove	det
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dove	amod
3	Dove	Dove	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 flock	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flock	det
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Dove	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 doves	case
8	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flock	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Dove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The Pigeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The white Dove that lives in the cote

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dove	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Dove	amod
3	Dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Dove	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cote	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cote	det
8	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the white Dove			the cote			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cote=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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