Exam question 3 · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…
What was the moral consequence of the soldier's conduct toward the farmer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, conduct · To what, where: moral consequence
This is exam question 3 of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 consequence | amod |
| 5 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 conduct | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 soldier | case |
| 10 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consequence | nmod |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 farmer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farmer | det |
| 13 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 conduct | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 consequence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the moral consequence | of the soldier's conduct toward the farmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conduct | the soldier | toward the farmer | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent toward=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 · ← Mova's choice
He was shunned and hated by everyone in the land for the rest of his life
The tree, 16 words
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 shunned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shunned | aux:pass |
| 3 | shunned | shun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hated | cc |
| 5 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shunned | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 hated | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 everyone | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 rest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rest | det |
| 13 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shunned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shun | past · passive | He | for the rest of his life | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location | ||||
| 2 | hate | participle | by everyone | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
He was branded as a thief and shunned by all the Spartans for 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 branded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 branded | aux:pass |
| 3 | branded | brand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 thief | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 thief | det |
| 6 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 branded | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shunned | cc |
| 8 | shunned | shun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 branded | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Spartans | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Spartans | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Spartans | det |
| 12 | Spartans | Spartan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 shunned | obl:agent |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shunned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brand | past · passive | He | as a thief | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | shun | participle | for life | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He was shunned and hated for 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 shunned | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shunned | aux:pass |
| 3 | shunned | shun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hated | cc |
| 5 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shunned | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shun | past · passive | He | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | hate | participle | for life | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for life=Attribute |
Option 4
He was praised by all the people
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 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praised | aux:pass |
| 3 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 praised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · passive | all people | He | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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