Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Story of Tuan Mac Cairill, part 1:…
Which of the following accurately identifies the lineage Tuan declares at the conclusion of the passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tuan · What happens: follow, identify, declare, conclude · To what, where: lineage, conclusion, passage
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 following | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 following | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 identifies | advmod |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lineage | det |
| 8 | lineage | lineage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 9 | Tuan | Tuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 declares | nsubj |
| 10 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lineage | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 conclusion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conclusion | det |
| 13 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 declares | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 passage | det |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conclusion | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the lineage | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lineage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | present | Tuan | the lineage not said here | the conclusion of the passage | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lineage=Attribute | |||
| 4 | conclude | the passage | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
Son of Cairill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Cairill | case |
| 3 | Cairill | Cairill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Brother of Sera, son of Partholon, kin to Finnian
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Sera | case |
| 3 | Sera | Sera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Brother | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brother | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Partholon | case |
| 7 | Partholon | Partholon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kin | punct |
| 9 | kin | kin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Brother | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Finnian | case |
| 11 | Finnian | Finnian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Son of Starn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Starn | case |
| 3 | Starn | Starn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Son of Starn, son of Sera, brother to Partholon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Starn | case |
| 3 | Starn | Starn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sera | case |
| 7 | Sera | Sera | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | appos |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Partholon | case |
| 11 | Partholon | Partholon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brother | 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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