Exam question 3 · The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantin…
Ascertain the passage through which a vessel must proceed in sailing from Marseilles to Lisbon.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, vessel · What happens: ascertain, proceed, sail · To what, where: passage, Lisbon, Marseilles
This is exam question 3 of lesson 62 «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» of the geography 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 passage | det |
| 3 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ascertain | obj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 proceed | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proceed | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 proceed | aux |
| 9 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passage | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 sailing | mark |
| 11 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 proceed | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Marseilles | case |
| 13 | Marseilles | Marseilles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sailing | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Lisbon | case |
| 15 | Lisbon | Lisbon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sailing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | the passage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Topic | ||||
| 2 | proceed | must | a vessel | the passage | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sail | gerund | a vessel not said here | Lisbon | Marseilles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from marseilles=Trajectory |
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 Strait of Dover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Strait | det |
| 2 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Dover | case |
| 4 | Dover | Dover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Strait | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Suez Canal, constructed in 1869
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Canal | det |
| 2 | Suez | Suez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Canal | compound |
| 3 | Canal | Canal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Canal | punct |
| 5 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Canal | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1869 | case |
| 7 | 1869 | 1869 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 constructed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | participle | the Suez Canal not said here | 1869 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The Bosphorus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bosphorus | det |
| 2 | Bosphorus | Bosphorus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Strait of Gibraltar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Strait | det |
| 2 | Strait | Strait | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gibraltar | case |
| 4 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Strait | nmod |
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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