Exam question 1 · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

Identify the creature which, in the absence of the Fox, seized and removed one of her offspring.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, seize, remove, absent · To what, where: creature, absence, one, Fox

This is exam question 1 of lesson 402 «Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals the fox's cub, and the fox takes revenge with fire» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 creature	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 absence	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 absence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 absence	det
8	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Fox	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 absence	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 removed	cc
15	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 removed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 offspring	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 offspring	nmod:poss
19	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the creature	the absence of the Fox	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	seize	past				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	remove	past		one of Fox's offspring		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	absent			the Fox		nom absence «state transitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer

The Eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A wild cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eagle	eagle	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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