Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

Indicate the condition in which the eaglets were described at the time of the fire.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, describe · To what, where: condition, eaglets

This is exam question 3 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 described	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eaglets	det
7	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 described	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 described	aux:pass
9	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 condition	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 described	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the condition					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot condition=Topic
2	describe	past · passive		the eaglets		the condition	time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme

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

Hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Young and unable to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 unable	cc
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Young	conj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Unfledged and helpless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 helpless	cc
3	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Unfledged	conj

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

Option 4

Asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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