Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…
Which natural force caused the vessel to deviate from its intended course?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: natural force, vessel · What happens: cause, deviate, intend · To what, where: vessel
This is exam question 1 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 caused | obj |
| 2 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 force | amod |
| 3 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vessel | det |
| 6 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 deviate | mark |
| 8 | deviate | deviate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 caused | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 course | nmod:poss |
| 11 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 course | amod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deviate | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | natural force | the vessel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deviate | to-infinitive | the vessel not said here | from force's intended course | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from course=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | intend | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 captain's error in a violent fog at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 error | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 captain | case |
| 4 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fog | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fog | det |
| 7 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fog | amod |
| 8 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 error | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fog | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | err | the captain | a violent fog at sea | nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a violent storm that blew the vessel off its path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 blew | nsubj |
| 5 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 storm | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blew | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 path | nmod:poss |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | a violent storm | the vessel | off vessel's path | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient off path=Co-Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a violent storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 storm | amod |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a strong current
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 current | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 current | amod |
| 3 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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