Exam question 2 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

What was the fate of the man who ran from the barber?

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

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	_	7 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 barber	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 barber	det
12	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the man			tree rules
2	run	past	the man		from the barber	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from barber=Trajectory
3	fate			the 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 fell down a steep rocky precipice and was never found again

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 precipice	det
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 precipice	amod
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 precipice	amod
7	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux:pass
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 found	advmod
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	he	a steep rocky precipice					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not find	past · passive	he not said here				again		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

Option 2

he tumbled off a cliff and landed in a thorn bush below

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 tumbled	nsubj
2	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 tumbled	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cliff	det
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tumbled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 landed	cc
7	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tumbled	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 bush	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bush	det
10	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bush	compound
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landed	obl
12	below	below	ADV	_	11 bush	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tumble off	past	he	a cliff					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cliff=Theme
2	land	past	he not said here			a thorn bush			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bush=Destination

Option 3

he was caught by guards

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	guards	he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he fell down a precipice

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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 precipice	det
5	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	he	a precipice					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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