Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…

Upon what coast was Halvor left becalmed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: coast Halvor · What happens: be, leave, becalm · To what, where: coast Halvor

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Halvor	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Halvor	cop
5	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 left	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		coast Halvor	tree rules
2	leave	past	coast Halvor		tree rules
3	becalm	participle	coast Halvor not said here		tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

the coast of the Admiral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coast	det
2	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Admiral	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Admiral	det
5	Admiral	admiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coast	nmod

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

Option 2

the familiar shore of his birth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shore	det
2	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shore	amod
3	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 birth	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 birth	nmod:poss
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shore	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a strange and unknown coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coast	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coast	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 unknown	cc
4	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 strange	conj
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a harbour of his homeland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 harbour	det
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 homeland	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 homeland	nmod:poss
5	homeland	homeland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 harbour	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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