Exam question 4 · Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's do…

What was the eventual fate of the three dogs upon the conclusion of the narrative?

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1941 «Folk-Tales, The Shepherd and the Dragon: the shepherd's dog slays the dragon, the false coachman takes the reward, and the shepherd returns to win the princess back» 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 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	eventual	eventual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 dogs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dogs	nummod
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fate	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 conclusion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conclusion	det
12	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dogs	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 conclusion	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the eventual fate				of the three dogs upon the conclusion of the narrative	tree rules
2	conclude			the narrative					nom conclusion «cognition 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

they turned to doves and rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 doves	case
4	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rose	cc
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they			doves and rose			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dove=Trajectory

Option 2

they became stars and sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sank	cc
5	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	stars					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sink	past	they not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

they became birds and flew to heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flew	cc
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 heaven	case
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	birds					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fly	past	they not said here					to heaven result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heaven=Result

Option 4

they became doves and flew north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flew	cc
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
6	north	north	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	they	doves					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fly	past	they not said here					north property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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