Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…
What quality is the Dog said to bestow upon the final portion of human life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality, Dog · What happens: be, say, bestow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dog | det |
| 5 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bestow | mark |
| 8 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | xcomp |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 portion | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 portion | det |
| 11 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 portion | amod |
| 12 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bestow | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 life | amod |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 portion | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | quality | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bestow | to-infinitive | the Dog not said here | upon the final portion of human life | 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
Snappishness, irritability and grumpy moods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snappishness | snappishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 irritability | punct |
| 3 | irritability | irritability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snappishness | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 moods | cc |
| 5 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moods | amod |
| 6 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Snappishness | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bitter snappishness that lasts into the grave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 snappishness | det |
| 2 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snappishness | amod |
| 3 | snappishness | snappishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lasts | nsubj |
| 5 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 snappishness | acl:relcl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 grave | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grave | det |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | a bitter snappishness | the grave | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Harsh temper and fury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 temper | amod |
| 2 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fury | cc |
| 4 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 temper | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Snappishness and irritability
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snappishness | snappishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 irritability | cc |
| 3 | irritability | irritability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snappishness | conj |
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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