Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the S…

Which vessel conveyed the princess back to her father's kingdom?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: vessel · What happens: convey · To what, where: princess

This is exam question 4 of lesson 669 «Fairy Book, The Seven Simons: Helena is won back and the Simons are rewarded» 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	3 conveyed	nsubj
3	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 conveyed	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 kingdom	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kingdom	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	which vessel	the princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic

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 wonder-ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ship	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the golden barge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barge	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 barge	amod
3	barge	barge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the wonder-ship that the king had given

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ship	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 given	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ship	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	the king	the wonder ship					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

Option 4

the crystal skiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 skiff	det
2	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skiff	amod
3	skiff	skiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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