Exam question 3 · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

What was the outcome of the young man's correct answers to the monster's inquiries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: outcome, young man, monster · What happens: be, answer, inquire

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king'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	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 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 answers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answers	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 man	case
10	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answers	amod
11	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 outcome	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 inquiries	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monster	det
14	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 inquiries	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 monster	case
16	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answers	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the outcome of the young man's correct answers to the monster's inquiries		tree rules
2	answer		the young man	to the monster's inquiries	nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
3	inquire		the monster		nom inquiry «cognition 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

The beast's strength was then reduced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beast	det
2	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strength	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 beast	case
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reduced	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reduced	aux:pass
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 reduced	advmod
7	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	past · passive		the beast's strength			then		vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The monster grew weaker by much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grew	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 much	case
6	much	much	ADV	_	3 grew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the monster					weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by much=Location

Option 3

The monster's power was diminished and it fled in terror across the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 power	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 monster	case
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 diminished	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 diminished	aux:pass
6	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fled	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fled	nsubj
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 diminished	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 terror	case
11	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 hills	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hills	det
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish	past · passive		the monster's power					vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	flee	past	power			terror		across the hills	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across hill=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The monster's power was thereby diminished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monster	det
2	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 power	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 monster	case
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diminished	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 diminished	aux:pass
6	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	7 diminished	advmod
7	diminished	diminish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	diminish	past · passive		the monster's power				thereby property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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