Exam question 1 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

Which object enabled Tiidu to remain afloat after the shipwreck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Tiidu · What happens: enable, remain · To what, where: Tiidu

This is exam question 1 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enabled	nsubj
3	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 enabled	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remain	mark
6	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enabled	xcomp
7	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remain	xcomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 shipwreck	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shipwreck	det
10	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 afloat	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 enabled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enable	past	which object	Tiidu					tree rules
2	remain	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here					afloat property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A wooden barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 barrel	amod
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A floating oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oar	det
2	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 oar	amod
3	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The chest of treasures he had carried out of the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chest	det
2	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 treasures	case
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chest	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	aux
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 ship	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry out	past · perfect · passive		the chest of treasures		the ship			tree rules

Option 4

A broken mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mast	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mast	amod
3	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	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

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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