Exam question 4 · Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the…
Which vessel was loaded with merchandise prior to the captain's departure for the palace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: captain · What happens: load, depart · To what, where: vessel
This is exam question 4 of lesson 359 «Stories of Long Ago, Casabianca, part 19: the cat wins the king's gold, and a boy waits on a burning 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loaded | aux:pass |
| 4 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 merchandise | case |
| 6 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loaded | obl |
| 7 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 12 departure | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prior | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 captain | det |
| 10 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departure | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 captain | case |
| 12 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merchandise | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 departure | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 loaded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past · passive | which vessel | with merchandise prior the captain's departure for the palace | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with merchandise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depart | the captain | for the palace | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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 ship "U-ni-corn"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ni | punct |
| 4 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ni | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 U | punct |
| 6 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ship | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 corn | punct |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ni | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ni | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The ship "Sea Dove"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Dove | punct |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dove | compound |
| 5 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ship | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Dove | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The vessel "Bright Star"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Star | punct |
| 4 | Bright | Bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Star | amod |
| 5 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 vessel | appos |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Star | punct |
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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