Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

What was the narrator's proposed method of escape from the island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: propose, be · To what, where: proposed method

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 method	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 method	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 method	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 narrator	case
6	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 method	amod
7	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 escape	case
9	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 method	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 island	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 escape	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 method	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	participle							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the narrator's proposed method				of escape from the island	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 construction of rafts to sail back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 construction	det
2	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rafts	case
4	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 construction	nmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sail	mark
6	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 construction	acl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 sail	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 sail	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail back	to-infinitive						home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	construct			rafts					nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the construction of rafts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 construction	det
2	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 rafts	case
4	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 construction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	construct			rafts					nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

the building of boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 building	det
2	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 boats	case
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 building	nmod

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

Option 4

the construction of several large rafts from the palace wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 construction	det
2	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 rafts	case
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rafts	amod
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rafts	amod
6	rafts	raft	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 construction	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wood	compound
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rafts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	construct			several large rafts from the palace wood					nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient

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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