Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

What was the ultimate fate of the shirt collar, as recorded in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, record · To what, where: ultimate fate, narrative

This is exam question 2 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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 fate	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fate	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fate	amod
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 collar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collar	det
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collar	compound
9	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fate	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 recorded	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 recorded	mark
12	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fate	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recorded	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate fate				of the shirt collar	tree rules
2	record	participle				the narrative			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in narrative=Destination

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

He was converted into fine white paper for printing

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 converted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 converted	aux:pass
3	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 paper	case
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paper	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paper	amod
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 converted	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 printing	case
9	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paper	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert	past · passive		He				into fine white paper for printing result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into paper=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was converted into white paper

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 converted	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 converted	aux:pass
3	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 paper	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paper	amod
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 converted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert	past · passive		He				into white paper result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into paper=Result

Option 3

He was turned to white dust

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 turned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux:pass
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 dust	case
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dust	amod
6	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		He		white dust			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to dust=Trajectory

Option 4

He was pulped at the mill and converted into coloured wrapping paper

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 pulped	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pulped	aux:pass
3	pulped	pulp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 converted	cc
8	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pulped	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 paper	case
10	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 paper	amod
11	wrapping	wrapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paper	compound
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 converted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pulp	past · passive		He		the mill			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	convert	participle						into coloured wrapping paper result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into paper=Result

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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