Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Upon the sickness that destroyed the followers of Partholon, which individual alone survived?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: destroy, survive · To what, where: followers, individual

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1034 «Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely years, a plague, and a stag» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 sickness	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sickness	det
3	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 destroyed	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 destroyed	nsubj
5	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 followers	det
7	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 destroyed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Partholon	case
9	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 followers	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 individual	punct
11	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	12 individual	det
12	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followers	conj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 survived	advmod
14	survived	survive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 individual	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 destroyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	that	the followers of Partholon and which individual				upon the sickness	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follower=Patient
2	survive	participle		which individual not said here				alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nemed mac Agnoman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nemed	flat
3	Agnoman	Agnoman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nemed	flat

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

Option 2

Nemed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nemed	Nemed	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Fintan mac Bochra

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fintan	Fintan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fintan	flat
3	Bochra	Bochra	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fintan	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tuan mac Cairill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tuan	flat
3	Cairill	Cairill	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tuan	flat

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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