Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

What was the fate of the old woman at the conclusion of the episode?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: be, fate, conclude · To what, where: old woman, episode

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» 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 woman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 conclusion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 conclusion	det
11	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 episode	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 episode	det
14	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conclusion	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the old woman at the conclusion of the episode		tree rules
2	fate			the old woman at the conclusion of the episode	nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient
3	conclude			the episode	nom conclusion «cognition 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

She ran off

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	She						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She fled to the forest

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
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fled	obl

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

Option 3

She fell in the well

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	She			the well			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in well=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She perished in her own oven

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 perished	nsubj
2	perished	perish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 oven	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 oven	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 oven	amod
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 perished	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perish	past	She			her own oven			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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