Test 10 · ★ · Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wi…

Where did the boat end up, like, proper far away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boat · What happens: be, end up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1968 «Old Tales, Whittington and His Cat, part 27: Dick's cat wins his place at court across the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 end	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 away	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	5 end	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 end	punct
10	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 away	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 away	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boat					where property	tree rules
2	end up	present							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

back to London after a long storm at sea and a broken mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 London	case
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 back	obl
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 storm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 storm	amod
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 back	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 sea	case
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 storm	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mast	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mast	det
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 mast	amod
13	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the shores of Tunis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a strange coast where the people were black and the land was dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coast	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coast	amod
3	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 black	nsubj
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 black	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 black	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 black	cop
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dry	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dry	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dry	cop
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 black	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a strange coast					black property	tree rules
2	is	past	the land					dry property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the coast of Barbary

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	_	4 Barbary	case
4	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 coast	nmod

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

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