Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

What was the principal consequence of the sparrow's conduct toward Brer Fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sparrow · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: principal consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 conduct	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sparrow	det
8	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 sparrow	case
10	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 Fox	case
12	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fox	compound
13	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conduct	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of the sparrow's conduct toward Brer Fox	tree rules
2	conduct		the sparrow					toward Brer Fox	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent toward=obl

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 fox consumed the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumed	nsubj
3	consumed	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consumed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	past	the fox	the bird					vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Asset

Option 2

The bird warned the rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	nsubj
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rabbit	det
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the bird		the rabbit				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient

Option 3

The bird flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 flew	compound:prt

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

Option 4

The fox lost his temper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 temper	nmod:poss
5	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the fox	fox's temper					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
2	temper		fox						nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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