Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

In the fable of the Frog, what objection did the Fox raise against the Frog's claimed medical skill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: objection · What happens: do, claim · To what, where: Fox raise, fable

This is exam question 2 of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» 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 fable	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fable	det
3	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Frog	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Frog	det
6	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fable	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	obj
9	objection	objection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 raise	det
12	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raise	compound
13	raise	raise	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obj
14	against	against	ADP	_	20 skill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Frog	det
16	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 skill	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Frog	case
18	claimed	claim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 skill	amod
19	medical	medical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skill	amod
20	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raise	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	objection	the Fox raise		the fable of the Frog		against the Frog's claimed medical skill	tree rules
2	claim speech: other	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

That the Frog was unable to heal his own lame gait and wrinkled skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Frog	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frog	det
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	cop
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 heal	mark
7	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gait	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gait	amod
10	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gait	compound
11	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heal	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skin	cc
13	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 skin	amod
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frog		unable property	tree rules
2	heal	to-infinitive	the Frog not said here	Frog's own lame gait and wrinkled skin		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gait=Patient
3	wrinkle	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

That the Frog could not prove any cure he claimed was real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prove	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frog	det
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prove	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 prove	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 prove	advmod
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 cure	det
8	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 real	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 claimed	nsubj
10	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cure	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 real	cop
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prove	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not prove	could	That			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	past	Frog	any cure not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cure=Topic
3	is	past	any cure		real property	tree rules

Option 3

That the Frog was unable to heal his own lame gait and wrinkled skin and was therefore a fraud

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unable	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frog	det
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	cop
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 heal	mark
7	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gait	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gait	amod
10	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gait	compound
11	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heal	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wrinkled	cc
13	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	conj
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrinkled	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fraud	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fraud	cop
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	19 fraud	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fraud	det
19	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrinkled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	That		unable property	tree rules
2	heal	to-infinitive	That not said here	Frog's own lame gait		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gait=Patient
3	wrinkle	past	That not said here	skin		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	is a	past	That not said here	a fraud	therefore property	tree rules

Option 4

That the Frog was unable to heal his own lame gait and wrinkled skin, which the Fox had seen for years

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Frog	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frog	det
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 unable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unable	cop
5	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 heal	mark
7	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 unable	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gait	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gait	amod
10	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gait	compound
11	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heal	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skin	cc
13	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 skin	amod
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gait	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seen	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Fox	det
18	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 gait	acl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 years	case
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frog			unable property	tree rules
2	heal	to-infinitive	the Frog not said here	Frog's own lame gait and wrinkled skin			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gait=Patient
3	wrinkle	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	see	past · perfect	the Fox	Frog's own lame gait and wrinkled skin	year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus

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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