Exam question 3 · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…
Which creature piloted the vessel that conveyed Manus to Lochlann?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, vessel · What happens: pilot, convey · To what, where: vessel, Manus, Lochlann
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piloted | nsubj |
| 3 | piloted | pilot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vessel | det |
| 5 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piloted | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 conveyed | nsubj |
| 7 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Lochlann | case |
| 10 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 piloted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pilot | past | which creature | the vessel | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | convey | past | the vessel | Manus | Lochlann | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent manus=Topic to lochlann=Recipient |
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
A young lion cub disguised as a ship's pilot from the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cub | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cub | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cub | compound |
| 4 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cub | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 pilot | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pilot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 10 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disguised | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 north | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 north | det |
| 13 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disguised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | participle | a young lion cub not said here | the north | as a ship's pilot | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The brown dog in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 disguise | case |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dog | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The lion cub in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cub | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cub | compound |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 disguise | case |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cub | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The lion cub, disguised as a young sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cub | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cub | compound |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 disguised | punct |
| 5 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cub | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sailor | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sailor | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sailor | amod |
| 9 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disguised | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | participle | the lion cub not said here | as a young sailor | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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