Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dry…

What consequence did the Wind predict for all the splendor of the present day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: predict

This is exam question 4 of lesson 819 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard, part 30: the Dryad vanishes at dawn, then Jack sets off on his Billy-goat and finds a dead crow and an old shoe» 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	6 predict	obl
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 predict	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wind	det
5	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	nsubj
6	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 splendor	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 splendor	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 splendor	det
10	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 predict	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 splendor	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 predict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict	past · do-support	the Wind					for all splendor of the present day	vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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 would fade

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 fade	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fade	aux
3	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 2

it'd be gone

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	4 gone	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	aux:pass
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would · passive		it					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

it would be burned up

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	4 burned	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 burned	aux:pass
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	would · passive		it					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

it would be blown away

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	4 blown	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 blown	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 blown	aux:pass
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 blown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	would · passive		it				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: 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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