Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

State the material which the Eagle conveyed to her nest, having obtained it from the altar.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: convey, obtain · To what, where: material, nest, altar

This is exam question 2 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	appos
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 conveyed	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eagle	det
6	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	nsubj
7	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 material	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nest	nmod:poss
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conveyed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 obtained	punct
12	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 obtained	aux
13	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 conveyed	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obtained	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 altar	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 altar	det
17	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obtained	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	the Eagle	the material	Eagle's nest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to nest=Recipient
2	obtain	gerund · perfect	the Eagle not said here	nest		the altar			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from altar=Source

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

A piece of goat with ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 goat	case
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 ash	case
6	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 2

Some meat and a hot coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 meat	det
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coal	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coal	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coal	amod
6	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meat	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Flesh of a goat with a cinder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 goat	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goat	det
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flesh	nmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cinder	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cinder	det
7	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goat	nmod

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

Option 4

A large piece of goat flesh that still had a glowing cinder on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 piece	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piece	amod
3	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 flesh	case
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flesh	compound
6	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 piece	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 piece	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cinder	det
11	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 cinder	amod
12	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a large piece of goat flesh		cinder	still		tree rules
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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