Exam question 4 · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

What was the principal consequence of the fire at the base of the pool?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: principal consequence, base

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 base	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 base	det
11	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pool	det
14	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 base	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence		the base of the pool		of the fire	tree rules

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

It continued to burn brightly beneath the surface of the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 burn	mark
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 burn	advmod
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 surface	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 surface	det
8	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burn	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pool	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pool	det
11	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 surface	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	It						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	burn	to-infinitive				the surface of the pool		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath surface=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It kept on burning fiercely under the water for many hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 burning	mark
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	advcl
5	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	4 burning	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burning	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hours	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hours	amod
11	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	burn	gerund				the water	hour	fiercely property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It continued to burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 burn	mark
4	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	It						vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	burn	to-infinitive							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It sank out of sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 sight	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sight	case
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	It			sight			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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