Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

What was the fate of the impostor at the close of the tale?

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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 impostor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 impostor	det
7	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 close	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 close	det
10	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 impostor	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the impostor at the close of the tale						tree rules
2	fate			the impostor at the close of the tale					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

forgiven and freed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 freed	cc
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 forgiven	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	free	participle							vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

sent back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 sent	advmod
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	participle						home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

pardoned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

pardoned and expelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pardoned	pardon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 expelled	cc
3	expelled	expel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 pardoned	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pardon	participle							vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	expel	participle							vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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