Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

What is the final outcome for the horse as described in the tale?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: final outcome, tale

This is exam question 4 of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres 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 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 described	mark
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 outcome	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the final outcome				for the horse	tree rules
2	describe	participle		the final outcome not said here		the tale			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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

He is sold away

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 sold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell away	present · passive		He				away property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

He is sent off to a far farm

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 sent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 farm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farm	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farm	amod
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	present · passive		He		a far farm			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to farm=Destination

Option 3

He goes to the wood

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	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	He			the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He remains in the stable until his death

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	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 stable	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stable	det
5	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 death	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 death	nmod:poss
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	He			the stable	until his death		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stable=Location
2	die		his = he						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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