Exam question 1 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

To what was the explosion aboard the vessel attributable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is exam question 1 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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	_	5 explosion	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 explosion	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 explosion	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 explosion	det
5	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	aboard	aboard	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 explosion	nmod
9	attributable	attributable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 vessel	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 explosion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						to the explosion; aboard the vessel	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 right answer

Gunpowder stored in the hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gunpowder	acl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hold	det
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	participle		Gunpowder not said here		the hold			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hold=Location

Option 2

A stray spark from a lantern that fell among the sails above deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spark	det
2	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spark	amod
3	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 lantern	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lantern	det
6	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spark	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 sails	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sails	det
11	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
12	above	above	ADP	_	13 deck	case
13	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a stray spark from a lantern			deck		among the sails	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among sail=Location

Option 3

Sparks from the galley fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparks	spark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 fire	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
4	galley	galley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fire	compound
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sparks	nmod

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

Option 4

Gunpowder that had been carelessly stored in the hold of the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stored	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stored	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 stored	aux:pass
5	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	6 stored	advmod
6	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Gunpowder	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hold	det
9	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stored	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ship	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ship	det
12	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	past · perfect · passive		Gunpowder		the hold of the ship		carelessly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in hold=Location
2	hold			the ship					nom hold «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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