Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

What was the Owl's stratagem to lure the Grasshopper to her hollow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, lure · To what, where: stratagem, Grasshopper

This is exam question 3 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	6 stratagem	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stratagem	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Owl	det
4	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stratagem	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Owl	case
6	stratagem	stratagem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lure	mark
8	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stratagem	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Grasshopper	det
10	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lure	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hollow	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hollow	nmod:poss
13	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lure	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stratagem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Owl's stratagem					tree rules
2	lure	to-infinitive		the Grasshopper				to Grasshopper's hollow result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Patient to hollow=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

An offer of warm shelter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 offer	det
2	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shelter	case
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shelter	amod
5	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer			warm shelter					nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A promise of sweet fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fruit	case
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fruit	amod
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise			sweet fruit					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Shelter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A promise of nectar to drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 promise	det
2	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 nectar	case
4	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	promise			nectar					nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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