Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays gia…

What was the consequence of the enchanter's defeat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: enchanter · What happens: be, defeat · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1501 «Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant Killer: Jack tricks, slays giants, breaks the spell and wins the duke's daughter» 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	4 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 defeat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 enchanter	det
7	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 defeat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 enchanter	case
9	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the consequence				of the enchanter's defeat	tree rules
2	defeat		the enchanter						nom defeat «event transitive»: poss=agent

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 was borne away by a violent whirlwind over the hills

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 borne	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 borne	aux:pass
3	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 borne	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 whirlwind	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whirlwind	det
7	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whirlwind	amod
8	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borne	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 hills	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 borne	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear away	past · passive	a violent whirlwind	He		the hills		away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

He was thrown into the deep sea

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	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	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 deep sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was borne away by a whirlwind

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 borne	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 borne	aux:pass
3	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 borne	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 whirlwind	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whirlwind	det
7	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 borne	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear away	past · passive	a whirlwind	He				away property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

He was struck by lightning

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 struck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	aux:pass
3	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 lightning	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past · passive	lightning	He					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument

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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