Exam question 2 · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

For what reason did Muirne refrain from keeping her son in her own company?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Muirne · What happens: refrain, keep · To what, where: son, own company

This is exam question 2 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 refrain	obl
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refrain	aux
5	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 refrain	nsubj
6	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 keeping	mark
8	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 refrain	advcl
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 company	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 company	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 company	amod
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keeping	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 refrain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refrain	past · do-support	Muirne						vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	gerund	Muirne not said here	Muirne's son		Muirne's own company			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Theme in company=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

She dreaded the clann-Morna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dreaded	nsubj
2	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Morna	det
4	clann	clann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Morna	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 clann	punct
6	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dreaded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dread	past	She	the clann Morna					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morna=Stimulus

Option 2

She feared Morna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She	Morna					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morna=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She feared the king's men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feared	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She	the king's men					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

Option 4

She dreaded the clann-Cumhal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dreaded	nsubj
2	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cumhal	det
4	clann	clann	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cumhal	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 clann	punct
6	Cumhal	Cumhal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dreaded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dread	past	She	the clann Cumhal					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cumhal=Stimulus

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