Exam question 2 · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

What was the fate of the Stalo mother following the destruction of her cane?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fate, Stalo mother · What happens: be, follow, fate, destroy · To what, where: destruction, Stalo mother, cane

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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	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	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 mother	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
7	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mother	compound
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
9	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 mother	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 destruction	det
11	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 following	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cane	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cane	nmod:poss
14	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 destruction	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the Stalo mother		tree rules
2	follow	gerund	the Stalo mother not said here	the destruction of her cane	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme
3	fate			the Stalo mother	nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient
4	destroy			her cane	nom destruction «act 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was reduced to ashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reduced	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reduced	aux:pass
3	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 ashes	case
5	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reduced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	past · passive		She				to ashes goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to ash=Goal

Option 2

She fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	She						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	She						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

She was frozen in ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 frozen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux:pass
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		She		ice			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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