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title: What fate befell the learned man at the conclusion of the preceding… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What fate befell the learned man at the conclusion of the preceding portion? Exam question 4 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl…

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What fate befell the learned man at the conclusion of the preceding portion?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fate · **What happens:** befall, learn, precede, conclude · **To what, where:** learned man, conclusion, preceding portion

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/306-pg1597-part33/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e4:1
# text = What fate befell the learned man at the conclusion of the preceding portion?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befall** | past | what fate | the learned man |  | the conclusion of the preceding portion |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **conclude** |  |  | the preceding portion |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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he was taken away and never seen again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e4:o1:1
# text = he was taken away and never seen again
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | participle |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he was sent to exile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e4:o2:1
# text = he was sent to exile
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	exile	exile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exile** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he fled the city quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e4:o3:1
# text = he fled the city quickly
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | he | the city |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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he was deprived of life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:e4:o4:1
# text = he was deprived of life
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deprive** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of life=Theme |

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**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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