Exam question 4 · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors spr…

What was the final outcome of the warriors' conflict with one another?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: warriors · What happens: be, conflict · To what, where: final outcome

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2083 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 42: warriors sprout from the teeth and fight to the death» 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 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 conflict	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 warriors	det
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 conflict	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 warriors	case
10	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 conflict	appos
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	fixed
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final outcome				of the warriors's conflict	tree rules
2	conflict		the warriors						nom conflict «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The last survivor killed his brothers and then fled the field alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 survivor	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 survivor	amod
3	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 killed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fled	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fled	advmod
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 killed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 fled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	the last survivor	survivor's brothers					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
2	flee	past	the last survivor not said here	the field			then	alone property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Initial_Location

Option 2

Most fled, one stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 stayed	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Most	acl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Most	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Most	nummod
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	past	Most						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

All died save the last survivor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 died	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 survivor	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 survivor	amod
6	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past						all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	save	infinitive		the last survivor					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent survivor=Theme

Option 4

All died except the last survivor, who fell at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	except	except	ADP	_	6 survivor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 survivor	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 survivor	amod
6	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 survivor	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past						except the last survivor; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	fall	past	the last survivor						vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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