Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…
What fate befell the learned man at the conclusion of the preceding portion?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: befall, learn, precede, conclude · To what, where: learned man, conclusion, preceding portion
This is exam question 4 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 fate | det |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 befell | nsubj |
| 3 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 befell | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 conclusion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conclusion | det |
| 9 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 befell | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 portion | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 portion | det |
| 12 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 portion | amod |
| 13 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 conclusion | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 befell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | what fate | the learned man | the conclusion of the preceding portion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | conclude | the preceding portion | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=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
he was taken away and never seen again
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 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 taken | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seen | cc |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seen | advmod |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 taken | conj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 seen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · passive | he | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | participle | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
he was sent to exile
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 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 exile | mark |
| 5 | exile | exile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exile | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
he fled the city quickly
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 | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | obj |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 fled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | he | the city | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
he was deprived of life
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 deprived | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deprived | aux:pass |
| 3 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deprived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | past · passive | he | of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of life=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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