Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

Which of the following is the reason the farmer dismisses the horse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: follow, be, dismiss · To what, where: horse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 reason	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 reason	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reason	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dismisses	nsubj
10	dismisses	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 reason	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dismisses	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			of the reason	tree rules
3	dismiss	present	the farmer	the horse		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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

The horse is lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lazy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the horse					lazy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The horse is no longer capable of labour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 capable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 capable	cop
4	no	no	ADV	_	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 capable	advmod
6	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 labour	case
8	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 capable	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the horse					of labour; capable, long property	tree rules

Option 3

The horse has grown too weak to pull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grown	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grown	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pull	mark
8	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · perfect	the horse					weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	to-infinitive	the horse not said here						vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He is too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					old property	tree rules

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