Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pull…

Which term in the tale signifies a person who supplicates for assistance with humility?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, person · What happens: signify, supplicate · To what, where: person

This is exam question 4 of lesson 405 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pulls a thorn from a Lion's paw, and the Lion later spares him» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signifies	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 tale	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 term	nmod
6	signifies	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 signifies	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 supplicates	nsubj
10	supplicates	supplicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 person	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 assistance	case
12	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 supplicates	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 humility	case
14	humility	humility	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assistance	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 signifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	present	which term in the tale	a person					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot person=Theme
2	supplicate	present	a person					for assistance with humility	vn beg-58.2-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for assistance=Topic

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

Pleader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pleader	Pleader	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Suppliant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suppliant	suppliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Mendicant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mendicant	mendicant	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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