Exam question 4 · Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor…

What is the fate of the sick old man on whom the poor brother lands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: be, fate · To what, where: sick old man

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1307 «Portuguese Folk-Tales, The Two Brothers, part 32: the poor brother jumps from the wall onto a sick old man, and two sons drag him to court» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres 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	_	9 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 man	nmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lands	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lands	amod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lands	compound
15	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 whom	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the fate of the sick old man on the fate of the sick old man on the fate						tree rules
2	fate			the sick old man on the fate of the sick old man on the fate of the sick old man					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 · ← Mova's choice

He lives

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 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	He						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He groans and walks away

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 groans	nsubj
2	groans	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walks	cc
4	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 groans	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 walks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groan	present	He						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk away	present	He not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He dies without a groan

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 dies	nsubj
2	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 groan	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 groan	det
5	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	He					without a groan	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

He gets up

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gets	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	present	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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