Exam question 1 · Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag…

Identify the sequence of animal forms assumed by the narrator during the events of this part.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, assume · To what, where: sequence, animal forms

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1035 «Irish Myths, Tuan mac Cairill, part 3: Tuan becomes a stag, a boar, a hawk, then a salmon» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sequence	det
3	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forms	case
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forms	compound
6	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sequence	nmod
7	assumed	assume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 forms	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 narrator	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 narrator	det
10	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assumed	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 events	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 events	det
13	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 assumed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 part	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 events	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the sequence of animal forms					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
2	assume	participle		animal forms not said here			during the events of this part	by the narrator	vn adopt-93.1 «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

boar, salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 salmon	punct
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boar	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

stag, boar, hawk, salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boar	punct
3	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stag	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hawk	punct
5	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stag	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 salmon	punct
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stag	conj

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

Option 3

boar, stag, bear, hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stag	punct
3	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boar	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bear	punct
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boar	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hawk	punct
7	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boar	conj

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

Option 4

stag, hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hawk	punct
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stag	conj

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

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