Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…

What was the fate of the golden ship after the old man's command?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fate, old man · What happens: be, fate, command · To what, where: golden ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the ring» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fate	det
4	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 ship	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ship	amod
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	14 command	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 command	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fate	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	the fate of the golden ship after the old man's command			tree rules
2	fate			the golden ship	after the old man's command	nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient after=obl
3	command		the old man			nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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

It became black wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	black wood					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It became black wood and sank beneath the waves with all the cargo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sank	cc
6	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 waves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 waves	det
9	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sank	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 cargo	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 cargo	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cargo	det
13	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	black wood					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sink	past						beneath the waves; with all cargo	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cargo=Instrument

Option 3

It turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It			stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 4

It became black wood and its crew fled onto the island of mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wood	amod
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fled	cc
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crew	nmod:poss
7	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fled	nsubj
8	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 became	conj
9	onto	onto	ADP	_	11 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mice	case
13	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 island	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	It	black wood					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	flee	past	wood's crew			the island of mice			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto island=Initial_Location

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