Exam question 1 · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…
Which two women were appointed as the guardians of the infant Fionn in the woods of Slieve Bloom?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: appoint · To what, where: two women, woods
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1037 «Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up hidden in the woods, climbs trees, and is secretly visited by his mother» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 appointed | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux:pass |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 guardians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guardians | det |
| 8 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fionn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fionn | det |
| 11 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Fionn | amod |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 guardians | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woods | det |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Bloom | case |
| 17 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Bloom | compound |
| 18 | Bloom | Bloom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 woods | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | two women | the woods of Slieve Bloom | as the guardians of the infant Fionn | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Bovmall and Lia Luachra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bovmall | Bovmall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Lia | cc |
| 3 | Lia | Lia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 4 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lia | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Bovmall, Lia Luachra and the nurse of the glen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bovmall | Bovmall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lia | punct |
| 3 | Lia | Lia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 4 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lia | flat |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nurse | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nurse | det |
| 7 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 glen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 glen | det |
| 10 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nurse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bovmall and Lia Luachra, the two druidesses of Slieve Bloom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bovmall | Bovmall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Lia | cc |
| 3 | Lia | Lia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 4 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lia | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 druidesses | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 druidesses | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 druidesses | nummod |
| 8 | druidesses | druidess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bloom | case |
| 10 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bloom | compound |
| 11 | Bloom | Bloom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 druidesses | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bovmall and Muirne Dhu
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bovmall | Bovmall | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Muirne | cc |
| 3 | Muirne | Muirne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bovmall | conj |
| 4 | Dhu | Dhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Muirne | 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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