Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies…

What was the fate of the buckwheat during the storm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate · What happens: be, fate · To what, where: buckwheat

This is exam question 2 of lesson 807 «Andersen's Tales, The Buckwheat: a proud buckwheat defies the storm and is burnt black» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 buckwheat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buckwheat	det
7	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 storm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 storm	det
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the buckwheat during the storm						tree rules
2	fate			the buckwheat			during the storm		nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient during=obl

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

It was eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		It					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It was drowned by the rain flood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drowned	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drowned	aux:pass
3	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 flood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flood	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flood	compound
7	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drowned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive	the rain flood	It					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

It was stepped on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stepped	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	aux:pass
3	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 stepped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step on	past · passive		It					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was scorched black by lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scorched	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scorched	aux:pass
3	scorched	scorch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scorched	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 lightning	case
6	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scorched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scorch	past · passive	lightning	It				black property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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.

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