Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

What became of the beggar who entered the sack in place of Toueno-Boueno?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beggar · What happens: become, enter · To what, where: sack, place

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beggar	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beggar	det
5	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 entered	nsubj
7	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beggar	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sack	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Toueno	case
13	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Boueno	punct
15	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Toueno	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of the beggar	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	enter	past	the beggar	the sack		place of Toueno and Boueno			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sack=Destination

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 was thrown into the river

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 thrown	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	aux:pass
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		He				into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into river=Result

Option 2

He escaped home

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	2 escaped	nsubj
2	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 escaped	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was drowned by the farmers

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 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drowned	aux:pass
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 farmers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmers	det
6	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drowned	obl:agent

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

Option 4

He was freed

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 freed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux:pass
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past · passive		He					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

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