Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

What was the principal cause of the prince's failure to embark upon the first vessel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, embark, fail · To what, where: principal cause

This is exam question 2 of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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	5 cause	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cause	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cause	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cause	amod
5	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 failure	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 failure	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 prince	case
10	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cause	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 embark	mark
12	embark	embark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 failure	acl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 vessel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vessel	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 vessel	amod
16	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 embark	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal cause	of the prince's failure	tree rules
2	embark	to-infinitive			upon the first vessel	tree rules
3	fail		the prince			nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The gardener's death, which delayed the prince's departure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delayed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delayed	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 delayed	nsubj
7	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 departure	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	delay	past	the gardener's death	the prince's departure	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent departure=Source
2	die		the gardener		nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
3	depart		the prince		nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The captain's sudden decision to sail before dawn

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	5 decision	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 captain	case
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decision	amod
5	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sail	mark
7	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 decision	acl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sail	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	to-infinitive					dawn		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	decide		the captain						nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The gardener's death, which delayed the prince's departure until the ship had already gone from the harbour

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gardener	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delayed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delayed	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 delayed	nsubj
7	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 departure	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delayed	obj
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 gone	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	aux
16	already	already	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 delayed	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 harbour	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 harbour	det
20	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	delay	past	the gardener's death	the prince's departure		vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent departure=Source
2	go	past · perfect	the ship		the harbour	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from harbour=Initial_Location
3	die		the gardener			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
4	depart		the prince			nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The loss of his bag on the way to the quay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bag	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bag	nmod:poss
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loss	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 quay	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 quay	det
11	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod

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

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