Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…
Which mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and weather?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mechanism · What happens: enable, overcome · To what, where: vessel, wind
This is exam question 3 of lesson 999 «Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people suffer for their gifts» 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 mechanism | det |
| 2 | mechanism | mechanism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enabled | nsubj |
| 3 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Robert | Robert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Fulton | Fulton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Robert | flat |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Robert | case |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enabled | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 overcome | mark |
| 9 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enabled | advcl |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 weather | cc |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wind | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 enabled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | past | which mechanism | Robert's vessel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overcome | to-infinitive | which mechanism not said here | wind and weather | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wind=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
Steam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A paddle wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | compound |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A steam engine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 engine | det |
| 2 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engine | compound |
| 3 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A sail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sail | det |
| 2 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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