Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Tuan mac Cairill, part 2: Tuan's lonely…

Which animal form did Tuan assume in his dream, and which form did he possess upon awakening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal form, form, Tuan · What happens: assume, form, possess, awaken, dream · To what, where: dream

This is exam question 4 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	compound
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assume	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assume	aux
5	Tuan	Tuan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 assume	nsubj
6	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dream	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dream	nmod:poss
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 assume	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 form	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 form	cc
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 form	nsubj
13	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 assume	parataxis
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 possess	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 possess	nsubj
16	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 form	ccomp
17	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	18 awakening	mark
18	awakening	awaken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 possess	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 assume	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	assume	past · do-support	animal form	Tuan's dream	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	form	present			tree rules
3	possess	past · do-support	form		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	awaken	gerund	form not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dream		Tuan		nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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

a wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a stag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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