Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Which object did Tuan employ in order to perceive the alteration of his own appearance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: employ, perceive, alter · To what, where: order, alteration, own appearance

This is exam question 3 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 employ	aux
4	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 employ	nsubj
5	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 employ	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 perceive	mark
9	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 employ	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 alteration	det
11	alteration	alteration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perceive	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 appearance	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 appearance	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 appearance	amod
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 alteration	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which object		order	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	perceive	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the alteration of Tuan's own appearance		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer alteration=Stimulus
3	alter			Tuan's own appearance		nom alteration «event 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

a cup of cold ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ale	case
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ale	amod
5	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 2

a stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stream	det
2	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pool	det
2	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a pool of chill water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pool	det
2	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
4	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pool	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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