Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…

What finally compelled the lord to open his great door on the morning after the siege?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: compel, open · To what, where: lord, great door

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1033 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1: Finnian forces his way into a pagan lord's house and wins him over» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 compelled	obj
2	finally	finally	ADV	_	3 compelled	advmod
3	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lord	det
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compelled	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 compelled	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 door	nmod:poss
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 siege	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 siege	det
16	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 compelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compel	past		the lord				finally property	tree rules
2	open	to-infinitive		his great door			after the siege; morning		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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 · ✓ the right answer

The steadfastness of Finnian's fast outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steadfastness	det
2	steadfastness	steadfastness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fast	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Finnian	case
4	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 steadfastness	nmod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Finnian	case
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod

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

Option 2

The bell that rang at the monastery gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bell	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
7	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	the bell			the monastery gate			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location

Option 3

The sleeplessness of the lord at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sleeplessness	det
2	sleeplessness	sleeplessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 lord	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lord	det
5	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleeplessness	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lord	nmod

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

Option 4

The steadfastness of Finnian's fast outside and the pleas of all the servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steadfastness	det
2	steadfastness	steadfastness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Finnian	case
4	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 steadfastness	nmod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Finnian	case
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 outside	advmod
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	2 steadfastness	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pleas	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pleas	det
10	pleas	plea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steadfastness	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 servants	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 servants	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servants	det
14	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pleas	nmod

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

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