Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Tom Hickathrift: Tom beats the footba…

What became of the giant's former land after Tom's victory?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: become

This is exam question 4 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 giant	case
7	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 land	amod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 victory	case
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 victory	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Tom	case
12	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 land	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of the giant's former land after Tom's victory	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

All of it was given to the poor as common land for their sheep and cows

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 given	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 All	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 poor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 given	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sheep	nmod:poss
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 given	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cows	cc
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sheep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		All	the poor			as common land; for their sheep and cows	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to poor=Recipient for sheep=Asset

Option 2

It was turned into a royal park for deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 park	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 park	det
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 park	amod
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 deer	case
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 park	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		It		a royal park for deer			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into park=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Part was given to the poor as common land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 poor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Part	the poor			as common land	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to poor=Recipient

Option 4

Part was given to the poor as common land and the rest went to Tom

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 poor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 land	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rest	det
12	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Tom	case
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		Part	the poor			as common land	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to poor=Recipient
2	go	past	the rest			Tom			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tom=Initial_Location

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