Exam question 3 · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

Upon what occasion did Muirne visit her son in the hut?

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

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 visit	obj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visit	aux
5	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 visit	nsubj
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hut	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hut	det
11	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visit	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 visit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	past · do-support	Muirne	Muirne's son		the hut			tree rules

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

When he was five years of age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 years	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	five years			of age		tree rules

Option 2

When he was six years of age, in the winter snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 age	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 age	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 age	cop
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 age	nmod:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 snow	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snow	compound
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 age	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				of age and the winter snow; year		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

When he was six years of age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 years	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	six years			of age		tree rules

Option 4

When he was seven years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				year	old property	tree rules

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