Exam question 4 · Irish Myths, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 5: Fionn grows up…

By what name was the boy known during his infancy in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, know · To what, where: boy

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 name	nsubj
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 boy	acl
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 infancy	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 infancy	nmod:poss
10	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 infancy	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy				by name	tree rules
2	know	participle		the boy not said here			during boy's infancy in the wood		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Fionn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Dermot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dermot	dermot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Cael

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cael	Cael	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Deimne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deimne	Deimne	PROPN	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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