Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

What was the fate of the two young ganders encountered at the moor?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fate · What happens: be, encounter, fate · To what, where: moor, two young ganders

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1148 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the duckling is bullied, flees to the moor, survives the hunt and reaches a cottage» 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	10 encountered	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 encountered	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 ganders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ganders	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 ganders	nummod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ganders	amod
9	ganders	gander	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fate	nmod
10	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 moor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 moor	det
13	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 encountered	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 encountered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past				tree rules
2	encounter	past	the fate of the two young ganders		the moor	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	fate			the two young ganders		nom fate «event transitive»: of=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

they flew off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt

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

Option 2

they got away safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 got	advmod
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	they					away, safe property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they were shot dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shot	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shot	aux:pass
3	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shot	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past · passive		they				dead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

they were caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caught	aux:pass
3	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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