Exam question 2 · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

What was the outcome of the ship sent by the wife of Oireal?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, send · To what, where: outcome, ship

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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	4 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outcome	det
4	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ship	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outcome	nmod
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ship	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wife	det
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Oireal	case
13	Oireal	Oireal	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the outcome				of the ship	tree rules
2	send	participle		the ship not said here				by the wife of Oireal	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

The fog frustrated its purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fog	det
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frustrated	nsubj
3	frustrated	frustrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 purpose	nmod:poss
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frustrated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frustrate	past	the fog	fog's purpose					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus purpose=Experiencer
2	purpose		fog						nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fog stopped the ship from reaching the island at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fog	det
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 reaching	mark
7	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stopped	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 island	det
9	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reaching	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the fog	the ship					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ship=Eventuality
2	reach	gerund	the fog not said here	the island		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent island=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

The fog blocked its path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fog	det
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocked	nsubj
3	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 path	nmod:poss
5	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	the fog	fog's path					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer path=Theme

Option 4

The ship was stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	aux:pass
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · passive		the ship					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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