Exam question 2 · Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways a…

According to the account, what was the final fate of the coal upon entering the water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: account, final fate · What happens: accord, be, enter · To what, where: final fate, water

This is exam question 2 of lesson 730 «Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean: three runaways almost die, and a bean ends up with a black seam» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 account	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 account	det
4	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fate	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 fate	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fate	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fate	det
9	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fate	amod
10	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 account	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 coal	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coal	det
13	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fate	nmod
14	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	15 entering	mark
15	entering	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fate	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entering	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 account	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the account	the final fate	of the coal	tree rules
3	enter	gerund	the final fate not said here	the water		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination

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

She fizzled and vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fizzled	nsubj
2	fizzled	fizzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 vanished	cc
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fizzled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fizzle	past	She						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	vanish	past	She not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	She						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She hissed and expired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hissed	nsubj
2	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 expired	cc
4	expired	expired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hissed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	She						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She hissed and sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hissed	nsubj
2	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sank	cc
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hissed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	past	She						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	She not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/730-pg2591-part6/e2/