Exam question 3 · Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther…

What was the fate of the wicked stepmother following the king's restoration to his family?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: fate

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1667 «Tales of Many Lands, The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther, part 56: the jackal tricks the dove, then the heron, and finds the panther's den» 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 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 stepmother	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stepmother	det
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stepmother	amod
8	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
9	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 restoration	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 restoration	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 family	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 family	nmod:poss
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 restoration	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fate				of the wicked stepmother; follow the king's restoration to king's family	tree rules
2	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She was banished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 banished	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 banished	aux:pass
3	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	banish	past · passive		She					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She was burned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burned	aux:pass
3	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		She					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Exiled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	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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