Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

What was the principal consequence of Tom's combat with the tinker?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: be, combat · To what, where: principal consequence

This is exam question 2 of lesson 242 «English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the football crowd, four robbers and a tinker, then kills a giant» 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	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 consequence	amod
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 combat	case
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 combat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tom	case
9	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tinker	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tinker	det
12	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 combat	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal consequence				of Tom's combat with the tinker	tree rules
2	combat		Tom					with the tinker	nom combat «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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 two men became steadfast friends and the tinker travelled with Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friends	amod
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 travelled	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tinker	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tinker	det
9	tinker	tinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friends	conj
10	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 Tom	case
12	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 travelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the two men						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	travel	past	steadfast friends and the tinker					with Tom	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The two men became steadfast and sworn friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friends	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sworn	cc
7	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 friends	amod
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the two men	steadfast sworn friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	swear	participle							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The two men were bitter, sworn foes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bitter	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bitter	cop
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 foes	punct
7	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 foes	amod
8	foes	foe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bitter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the two men					sworn foes obl; bitter property	tree rules
2	swear	participle							vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The two men fought on bitterly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fought	nsubj
4	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 bitterly	case
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	the two men						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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