Exam question 4 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

What was the final outcome for the thieves at the end of the tale?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: final outcome

This is exam question 4 of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 thieves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thieves	det
8	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 outcome	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thieves	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 tale	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 end	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final outcome				for the thieves at the end of the tale	tree rules

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

they kept it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

they hid and kept the gold safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hid	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they					safe property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	they not said here	the gold					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they fled and abandoned the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 abandoned	cc
4	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fled	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 abandoned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	abandon	past	they not said here	the gold					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme gold=Source

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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