Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

What was the ultimate fate of the fir shoots growing above the loch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ultimate fate · What happens: be, shoot, grow, fate · To what, where: loch, fir

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1997 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar eats every raspberry, so Munachar sets out to make a rope and hang him» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoots	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fir	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fir	det
8	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
9	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
10	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 shoots	xcomp
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 loch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 loch	det
13	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past				tree rules
2	shoot	present	the ultimate fate of the fir			tree rules
3	grow	gerund	the ultimate fate of the fir not said here		the loch	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above loch=Location
4	fate			the fir		nom fate «event 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 grew apart

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow apart	past	They					apart property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They were cut down again

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	3 cut	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	again	again	ADV	_	3 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	past · passive		They			again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

They withered away

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 withered	nsubj
2	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 withered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wither away	past	They					away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were united in a knot

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	3 united	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 united	aux:pass
3	united	unite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 knot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knot	det
6	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 united	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unite	past · passive		They		a knot			vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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