Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the…

What was the fate of the son of the king of Tisean, and of the deceiver, respectively?

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

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2005 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-Teller at Fault, part 1: the story-teller loses everything at dice and is turned into a hare» 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 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 son	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Tisean	case
12	Tisean	Tisean	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 king	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deceiver	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deceiver	cc
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 deceiver	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deceiver	det
17	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 respectively	punct
19	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	17 deceiver	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fate and the deceiver				of the son of the king of Tisean	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

Both were freed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 freed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux:pass
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past · passive		Both					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

Option 2

He was freed, and the deceiver was freed

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 freed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 freed	aux:pass
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 freed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 freed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deceiver	det
7	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 freed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 freed	aux:pass
9	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 freed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	past · passive		He					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
2	free	past · passive		the deceiver					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source

Option 3

He was exiled, and the deceiver was hanged

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hanged	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hanged	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deceiver	det
7	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hanged	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hanged	aux:pass
9	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 exiled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past · passive		He					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hange	past · passive		the deceiver					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was imprisoned, and the deceiver was burned to ashes

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 imprisoned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 imprisoned	aux:pass
3	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 burned	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 burned	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deceiver	det
7	deceiver	deceiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	aux:pass
9	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 imprisoned	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 ashes	case
11	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imprison	past · passive		He					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	burn	past · passive		the deceiver				to ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

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