Exam question 4 · Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, part 3: the angel's flower and the…

Which vessel conveyed the unfortunate boy to the sea, and in what season did it depart?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vessel · What happens: convey, depart · To what, where: unfortunate boy, sea

This is exam question 4 of lesson 792 «Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, part 3: the angel's flower and the neglected boy who goes to sea» 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	6 boy	det
5	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 depart	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 depart	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 season	case
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 season	det
14	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 depart	obl
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 depart	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 depart	nsubj
17	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 conveyed	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	which vessel	the unfortunate boy	the sea				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Topic to sea=Recipient
2	depart	past · do-support	vessel				season		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

the skipper's wretched little boat, which set out to sea in the cold late autumn

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skipper	det
2	skipper	skipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 skipper	case
4	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boat	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boat	amod
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 set	nsubj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 sea	case
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cold	det
15	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
16	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 autumn	advmod
17	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the skipper's wretched little boat			the cold	autumn	to sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location

Option 2

a wretched old vessel that sailed in late autumn across the rough northern sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 vessel	det
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vessel	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vessel	amod
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sailed	nsubj
6	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vessel	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 autumn	case
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 autumn	amod
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailed	obl
10	across	across	ADP	_	14 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sea	amod
13	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sea	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past	a wretched old vessel			the rough northern sea	autumn		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across sea=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a little fishing boat in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boat	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boat	amod
3	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boat	compound
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 winter	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boat	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a wretched vessel in late autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vessel	det
2	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vessel	amod
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 autumn	case
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 autumn	amod
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vessel	nmod

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

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