Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant

What fate befell the robber captain at the conclusion of the episode?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: befall, conclude · To what, where: robber captain, conclusion, episode

This is exam question 3 of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the 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	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 captain	det
5	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 captain	compound
6	captain	captain	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	_	12 episode	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 episode	det
12	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conclusion	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 befell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	befall	past	what fate	the robber captain		the conclusion of the episode			tree rules
2	conclude			the episode					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 blinded

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past · passive		He					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was blinded and cast into a deep hole

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 blinded	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blinded	aux:pass
3	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cast	cc
5	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 blinded	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 hole	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hole	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hole	amod
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	past · passive		He					tree rules
2	cast	participle				a deep hole			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into hole=Product

Option 3

He was exiled and sent beyond the hills

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
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sent	cc
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 exiled	conj
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obl

#	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
2	send	participle						beyond the hills	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was jailed

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	past · passive		He					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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