Exam question 4 · pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken mind is taken into a…

What became of Jurgen's body, according to the closing lines?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: become, accord

This is exam question 4 of lesson 969 «pg27200, Jurgen: a man with a broken mind is taken into a sand-buried church where the dead hold his wedding» 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 body	case
4	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 body	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jurgen	case
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lines	punct
8	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lines	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 according	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lines	det
11	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lines	compound
12	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 became	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of Jurgen's body; accord the closing lines	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

It was carried off by the great wave

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 carried	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	aux:pass
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 wave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wave	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wave	amod
8	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry off	past · passive	the great wave	It					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It lay buried in the church under sand

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 buried	nsubj:pass
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	aux:pass
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		It		the church		under sand	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in church=Destination

Option 3

It lay buried in the church under sand, forgotten by the whole town for good

The tree, 15 words

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 buried	nsubj:pass
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	aux:pass
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 forgotten	punct
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 buried	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 town	amod
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgotten	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 good	case
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 town	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		It		the church		under sand	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in church=Destination
2	forget	participle						by the whole town	tree rules

Option 4

It lay buried in the church under sand, and nobody ever dug it out again

The tree, 15 words

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	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lay	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 church	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 church	det
6	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 church	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dug	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dug	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 dug	nsubj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 dug	advmod
13	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dug	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 dug	compound:prt
16	again	again	ADV	_	13 dug	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past	It				tree rules
2	bury	participle			the church under sand		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in church=Destination
3	dig out	past	nobody	sand		ever; again	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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