Exam question 2 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

What did the dragon's horse advise the dragon regarding the fugitives?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: horse advise

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advise	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 dragon	case
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advise	compound
7	advise	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
10	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fugitives	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fugitives	det
12	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dragon	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the dragon's horse advise					tree rules
2	regard	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

that they had flown too far across the sea to be caught at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 flown	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flown	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	aux
4	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flown	advmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flown	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 caught	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 caught	aux:pass
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 flown	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · perfect · passive		they		the sea		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme across sea=Trajectory
2	catch	to-infinitive · passive				all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: at all=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

that they could never be caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 caught	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caught	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 caught	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 caught	aux:pass
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	could · passive		they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

that they would be caught soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 caught	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 caught	aux:pass
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · passive		they				soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

that the fugitives could never be caught by anyone in the kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 caught	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fugitives	det
3	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 caught	nsubj:pass
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 caught	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 caught	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 caught	aux:pass
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 caught	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kingdom	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kingdom	det
12	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	could · passive	anyone	the fugitives					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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