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description: Which natural force caused the vessel to deviate from its intended course? Exam question 1 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a cas…

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Which natural force caused the vessel to deviate from its intended course?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** natural force, vessel · **What happens:** cause, deviate, intend · **To what, where:** vessel

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 184 «Arabian Nights, Sinbad the Sailor, part 24: a storm, a castle of giants, and a hungry snake» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/184-pg128-part24/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e1:1
# text = Which natural force caused the vessel to deviate from its intended course?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	deviate	deviate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | natural force | the vessel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deviate** | to-infinitive | the vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from force's intended course | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from course=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **intend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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the captain's error in a violent fog at sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e1:o1:1
# text = the captain's error in a violent fog at sea
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **err** |  | the captain |  |  | a violent fog at sea |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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a violent storm that blew the vessel off its path

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e1:o2:1
# text = a violent storm that blew the vessel off its path
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | a violent storm | the vessel |  |  |  | off vessel's path | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient off path=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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a violent storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e1:o3:1
# text = a violent storm
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a strong current

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:184-pg128-part24:e1:o4:1
# text = a strong current
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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