Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

What was the outcome of the giant's attempt to cook the child?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: be, cook, attempt · To what, where: outcome, child

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 attempt	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attempt	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 giant	case
9	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cook	mark
11	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempt	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cook	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome	of the giant's attempt	tree rules
2	cook	to-infinitive		the child		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	attempt		the giant			nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=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

The giant was struck down by the woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	aux:pass
4	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 struck	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 woman	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike down	past · passive	the woman	the giant					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Conall killed the giant with a dart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 killed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 dart	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dart	det
7	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 killed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Conall	the giant				with a dart	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent giant=Patient with dart=Instrument

Option 3

The giant was slain by Conall, who escaped from the caldron before it could be heated up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slain	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux:pass
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Conall	case
6	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 escaped	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 escaped	nsubj
9	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Conall	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 caldron	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 caldron	det
12	caldron	caldron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escaped	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 heated	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heated	nsubj:pass
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heated	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heated	aux:pass
17	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 escaped	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 heated	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slay	past · passive	Conall	the giant		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	escape	past	Conall		the caldron	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from caldron=Initial_Location
3	heat up	could · passive		giant		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The giant was slain by Conall, who was not cooked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slain	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux:pass
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 Conall	case
6	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slain	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cooked	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cooked	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cooked	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 cooked	advmod
11	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Conall	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slay	past · passive	Conall	the giant					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	not cook	past · passive		Conall					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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