Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

In whose presence does the Monkey claim that his ancestors were freedmen of renown?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ancestors · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Monkey claim, presence, freedmen

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 presence	case
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 presence	nmod:poss
3	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claim	det
6	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	compound
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 freedmen	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ancestors	nmod:poss
10	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 freedmen	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 freedmen	cop
12	freedmen	freedman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 claim	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 renown	case
14	renown	renown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 freedmen	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Monkey claim		presence			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality
2	is a	past	his ancestors	freedmen				of renown	tree rules

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 Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Ape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lion	lion	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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