Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

To what condition was the ship's progress reduced upon the open ocean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, reduce · To what, where: progress

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 condition	nsubj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 progress	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 progress	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 progress	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 ship	case
8	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 progress	acl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ocean	det
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ocean	amod
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reduced	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 progress	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ship's progress				to condition	tree rules
2	reduce	participle		the ship's progress not said here				upon the open ocean	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer

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

A collision with jagged rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 collision	det
2	collision	collision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rocks	amod
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 collision	nmod

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

Option 2

A storm of violent gales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 gales	case
4	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gales	amod
5	gales	gale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 storm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	storm		violent gales						nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A calm without any wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calm	det
2	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calm	obl

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

Option 4

A tide of raging current

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tide	det
2	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 raging	mark
4	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tide	acl
5	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raging	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rage	gerund	a tide not said here					current property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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