Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

What penalty did the monarch declare would befall Jose should he fail?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monarch, Jose · What happens: declare, befall, fail

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	3 did	obj
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 befall	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monarch	det
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 befall	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 monarch	acl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 befall	aux
8	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fail	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fail	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fail	nsubj
12	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 befall	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 befall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	declare speech: other	infinitive	the monarch not said here	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	befall	would · past · do-support	the monarch	tree rules
3	fail	should	Jose	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

He would be drowned

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 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drowned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 drowned	aux:pass
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	would · passive		He					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He would be drowned in the palace moat at dawn

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 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drowned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 drowned	aux:pass
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 moat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moat	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moat	compound
8	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowned	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	would · passive		He		the palace moat at dawn			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would lose his head

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	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	He	his head					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

Option 4

He would be hanged

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 hanged	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hanged	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hanged	aux:pass
4	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	would · passive		He					tree rules

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