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title: Which object enabled Tiidu to remain afloat after the shipwreck? — Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object enabled Tiidu to remain afloat after the shipwreck? Exam question 1 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 1 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

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Which object enabled Tiidu to remain afloat after the shipwreck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, Tiidu · **What happens:** enable, remain · **To what, where:** Tiidu

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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/679-pg2435-part19/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e1:1
# text = Which object enabled Tiidu to remain afloat after the shipwreck?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	afloat	afloat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enable** | past | which object | Tiidu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afloat *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A wooden barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e1:o1:1
# text = A wooden barrel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A floating oar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e1:o2:1
# text = A floating oar
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The chest of treasures he had carried out of the ship

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e1:o3:1
# text = The chest of treasures he had carried out of the ship
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | past · perfect · passive |  | the chest of treasures |  | the ship |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A broken mast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:679-pg2435-part19:e1:o4:1
# text = A broken mast
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	mast	mast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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**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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