Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steal…

What fate was formally assigned to the false slave by the king?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: assign · To what, where: fate, false slave

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1649 «Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 38: a false slave steals the credit, then a brother rescues the other from a witch» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 fate	det
2	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assigned	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assigned	aux:pass
4	formally	formally	ADV	_	5 assigned	advmod
5	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 slave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 slave	det
8	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slave	amod
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assigned	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 king	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assigned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 assigned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assign	past · passive	the king	what fate				to the false slave goal; formally property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to slave=Goal

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 · ✓ the right answer

Execution by beheading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Execution	execution	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 beheading	case
3	beheading	beheading	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Execution	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	execute		beheading						nom execution «act transitive»: by=agent

Option 2

Hanging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Banishment from the realm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banishment	banishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 realm	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 realm	det
4	realm	realm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Banishment	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Burning at the stake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 stake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stake	det
4	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	gerund				the stake			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stake=Location

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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