Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

What quality did the Ass display when he feigned lameness to trick the Wolf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality · What happens: do, feign, trick · To what, where: Ass display, lameness, Wolf

This is exam question 2 of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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	3 did	obj
2	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 display	det
5	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 display	compound
6	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 feigned	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feigned	nsubj
9	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 display	acl:relcl
10	lameness	lameness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feigned	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 trick	mark
12	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feigned	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wolf	det
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 trick	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	quality	the Ass display	tree rules
2	feign	past	quality	lameness	tree rules
3	trick	to-infinitive	quality not said here	the Wolf	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient

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

Fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cunning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Clever deceit and quick wit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 deceit	amod
2	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wit	cc
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wit	amod
5	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deceit	conj

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

Option 4

Joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joy	Joy	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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