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

Which number of couples is recorded in the narrative as having accompanied Partholon to Ireland?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: record, have, accompany · To what, where: number, narrative, accompanied Partholon, Ireland

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 couples	case
4	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 recorded	aux:pass
6	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 narrative	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 narrative	det
9	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recorded	obl
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 having	mark
11	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 recorded	advcl
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 Partholon	amod
13	Partholon	Partholon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 having	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Ireland	case
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 having	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 recorded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	record	present · passive	which number of couples		the narrative	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in narrative=Destination
2	have	gerund	accompanied Partholon	Ireland		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partholon=Patient
3	accompany	participle				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

twenty-six couples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 six	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 twenty	punct
3	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 couples	nummod
4	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

forty couples and all their horses and cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 couples	nummod
2	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 horses	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 horses	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horses	nmod:poss
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 couples	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cattle	cc
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horses	conj

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

Option 3

twenty-four couples and their whole household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 couples	nummod
4	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 household	cc
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 household	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 household	amod
8	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 couples	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

twenty-four couples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 couples	nummod
4	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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