Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cu…

What was the immediate consequence of Fin's cunning upon the giant Cucullin?

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

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2011 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, part 1: Cucullin is tricked, and Trembling rides to church» 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	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 cunning	case
7	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cunning	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Fin	case
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Cucullin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Cucullin	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Cucullin	amod
13	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cunning	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the immediate consequence				of Fin's cunning upon the giant Cucullin	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

The giant collapsed on the ground, lifeless and pale, overcome with terror and the weakness of his broken teeth

The tree, 19 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	3 collapsed	nsubj
3	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 collapsed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lifeless	punct
8	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ground	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pale	cc
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lifeless	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 overcome	punct
12	overcome	overcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 collapsed	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 terror	case
14	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 overcome	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 weakness	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 weakness	det
17	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 terror	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 teeth	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teeth	nmod:poss
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 teeth	amod
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 weakness	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	collapse	past	the giant	the ground		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	overcome	infinitive	the giant not said here		with terror and the weakness of giant's broken teeth	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The giant was humiliated before the whole crowd, and then he fell down dead from the shock of his injured finger and his lost strength

The tree, 25 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 humiliated	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 humiliated	aux:pass
4	humiliated	humiliate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 crowd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crowd	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crowd	amod
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 humiliated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fell	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 humiliated	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 fell	advmod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 shock	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shock	det
18	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 finger	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 finger	nmod:poss
21	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 finger	amod
22	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shock	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strength	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 strength	nmod:poss
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 strength	amod
26	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humiliate	past · passive		the giant		before the whole crowd		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	fall down	past	giant		the shock of giant's injured finger and giant's lost strength	then	dead, down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from shock=Initial_Location
3	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shock			giant's injured finger				nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

The giant lost his strength and fled the field

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	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 strength	nmod:poss
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fled	cc
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the giant	giant's strength					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality
2	flee	past	the giant not said here	the field					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The giant fell lifeless from terror and weakness

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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 terror	case
6	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 weakness	cc
8	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 terror	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the giant			terror and weakness		lifeless property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from terror=Initial_Location

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