Exam question 4 · pg641, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 29: Florea meets a thre…

What was the ultimate consequence for the envious neighbour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ultimate consequence

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1778 «pg641, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 29: Florea meets a three-headed dragon at the bridge» 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	5 consequence	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 consequence	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 neighbour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighbour	det
8	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 neighbour	amod
9	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate consequence				for the envious neighbour	tree rules

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 met a sad fate

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 met	nsubj
2	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	He	a sad fate					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Co-Agent

Option 2

He fled to the hills

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	He			the hills			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location

Option 3

He was exiled to a faraway land and lived in poverty

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 exiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exiled	aux:pass
3	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 land	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 land	det
6	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exiled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lived	cc
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exiled	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 poverty	case
11	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past · passive		He		a faraway land			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to land=Destination
2	live	past				poverty			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in poverty=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He came to a miserable end

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 end	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 end	det
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 end	amod
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	He				to a miserable end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_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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