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title: Which mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and… — Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of H… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and weather? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Thorny Road of Honor: great people s…

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Which mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and weather?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mechanism · **What happens:** enable, overcome · **To what, where:** vessel, wind

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/999-pg27200-part210/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e3:1
# text = Which mechanism enabled Robert Fulton's vessel to overcome wind and weather?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	mechanism	mechanism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Fulton	Fulton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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Steam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e3:o1:1
# text = Steam
1	Steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A paddle wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e3:o2:1
# text = A paddle wheel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	paddle	paddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A steam engine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e3:o3:1
# text = A steam engine
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	engine	engine	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 sail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:999-pg27200-part210:e3:o4:1
# text = A sail
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sail	sail	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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**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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