Exam question 2 · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

What became of the eldest brother's vessel upon its launch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: become

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vessel	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 brother	case
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 launch	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 launch	nmod:poss
11	launch	launch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past						of the eldest brother's vessel; upon vessel's launch	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was destroyed by a squall

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	3 destroyed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 destroyed	aux:pass
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 squall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squall	det
6	squall	squall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 destroyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	a squall	It					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

It was burnt by pirates

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	3 burnt	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux:pass
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 pirates	case
5	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burnt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive	pirates	It					tree rules

Option 3

It was destroyed by a squall just after launching from the shore

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	3 destroyed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 destroyed	aux:pass
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 squall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squall	det
6	squall	squall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 destroyed	obl
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 launching	advmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 launching	mark
9	launching	launch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 destroyed	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 launching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	a squall	It					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	launch	gerund	a squall not said here			the shore			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from shore=Initial_Location

Option 4

It was destroyed by a squall that struck as it left the harbour

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	3 destroyed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 destroyed	aux:pass
3	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 squall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squall	det
6	squall	squall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 destroyed	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 struck	nsubj
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 squall	acl:relcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 struck	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 harbour	det
13	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	a squall	It	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	strike	past	a squall		tree rules
3	leave	past	squall	the harbour	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Theme

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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