Exam question 1 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

In the passage, what shape do the two combatants assume when they "met and crashed and sunk into" one another?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shape, two combatants, combatants · What happens: do, assume, meet, crash, sink · To what, where: passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 passage	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 shape	det
6	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 assume	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 combatants	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 combatants	nummod
10	combatants	combatant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 assume	nsubj
11	assume	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 met	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 met	punct
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 assume	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crashed	cc
17	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sunk	cc
19	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 met	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 one	case
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sunk	obl
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	fixed
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 assume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	present	what shape	the passage		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	assume	present	the two combatants			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	meet in a quote	past	combatants = combatant			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	crash in a quote	past	combatants = combatant not said here			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sink in a quote	past	combatants = combatant not said here		into one	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

two great billows of the deep, green-ridged and white-topped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 billows	nummod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 billows	amod
3	billows	billow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 billows	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ridged	punct
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ridged	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 green	punct
10	ridged	ridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 billows	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 topped	cc
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 topped	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 white	punct
14	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ridged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ridge	participle							tree rules
2	top	participle							vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

two great rocks, moss-covered and grey-topped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 rocks	nummod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rocks	amod
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
5	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 moss	punct
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rocks	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 topped	cc
9	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 topped	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grey	punct
11	topped	top	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 covered	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		two great rocks not said here					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	top	participle							vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

two waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 waves	nummod
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

two dark storms at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 storms	nummod
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storms	amod
3	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 sea	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 storms	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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