Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

What does the fox instruct the horse to do in order to deceive the lion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: instruct, do, deceive · To what, where: horse, lion

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 instruct	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 instruct	xcomp
10	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 deceive	mark
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 deceive	mark
13	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 do	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lion	det
15	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 deceive	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	present · do-support	the fox	the horse	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	the fox not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	deceive	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	the lion	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient

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

To gallop away from the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gallop	mark
2	gallop	gallop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 gallop	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gallop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gallop away	to-infinitive						from the lion; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lion=Trajectory

Option 2

To hide well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 hide	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive						well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To stand tall and roar loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stand	mark
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stand	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roar	cc
5	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stand	conj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 roar	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	to-infinitive						tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	roar	present						loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To lie motionless and feign death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lie	mark
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lie	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feign	cc
5	feign	feign	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	conj
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feign	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	to-infinitive						motionless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feign	infinitive		death					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient

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