Exam question 3 · Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wo…

What fate befell the infant son of Hector after the capture of the city?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: befall, capture · To what, where: infant son, city

This is exam question 3 of lesson 556 «Greek myths, The Fall of Troy: the Greeks hide inside a wooden horse and enter Troy» 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 son	det
5	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 befell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Hector	case
8	Hector	hector	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 capture	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 capture	det
11	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 befell	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 capture	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 befell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	past	what fate	the infant son of Hector			after the capture of the city		tree rules
2	capture			the city					nom capture «act 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 enslaved

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 enslaved	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enslaved	aux:pass
3	enslaved	enslave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enslave	past · passive		He					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He was exiled

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 exiled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exiled	aux:pass
3	exiled	exile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exile	past · passive		He					vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

He was taken as a slave to Greece

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	as	as	ADP	_	6 slave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 slave	det
6	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Greece	case
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 slave	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		He				as a slave to Greece	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as slave=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was hurled from the battlements

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 hurled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hurled	aux:pass
3	hurled	hurl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 battlements	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 battlements	det
6	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl	past · passive		He		the battlements			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from battlement=Initial_Location

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