Exam question 3 · Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and trave…

What is the principal reason given for the abundance of herring observed along the coast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, give, observe · To what, where: principal reason, herring

This is exam question 3 of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 reason	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 abundance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 abundance	det
9	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 herring	case
11	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 abundance	nmod
12	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 herring	acl
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 coast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coast	det
15	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the principal reason		tree rules
2	give	participle	the principal reason not said here	for the abundance of herring	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for abundance=Asset
3	observe	participle	herring not said here	along the coast	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 storm drove the fish into the bay at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 bay	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bay	det
8	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dawn	case
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	a storm	the fish		the bay	dawn		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into bay=Trajectory

Option 2

The summer sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sun	compound
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fish were so numerous that nets filled instantly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 numerous	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 numerous	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 numerous	advmod
5	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 filled	mark
7	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filled	nsubj:pass
8	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 numerous	advcl
9	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	8 filled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fish					numerous property	tree rules
2	fill	participle · passive		nets				instantly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The fishermen had moved their nets north this year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fishermen	det
2	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moved	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moved	aux
4	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nets	nmod:poss
6	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moved	obj
7	north	north	ADV	_	4 moved	advmod
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moved	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past · perfect	the fishermen	fishermen's nets			year	north property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent net=Theme

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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