Exam question 4 · Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn tr…

Which individual is identified in the narrative as the aunt of Fionn and one of his guardians?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: identify · To what, where: individual, narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1038 «Fionn mac Cumhaill, The Boyhood of Fionn, part 6: Fionn trains hard, learns to swim, and is left sneezing in a tree» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 identified	aux:pass
4	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 narrative	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrative	det
7	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 aunt	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 aunt	det
10	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 identified	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Fionn	case
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 aunt	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 aunt	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 guardians	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 guardians	nmod:poss
17	guardians	guardian	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which individual		the narrative		as the aunt of Fionn	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as aunt=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

Bovmall, the sister of Uail and the mother of one of Morna's sons

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sister	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bovmall	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Uail	case
6	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mother	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bovmall	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 mother	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 sons	case
13	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sons	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Morna	case
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod

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

Option 2

Bovmall, wife of Uail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bovmall	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Uail	case
5	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod

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

Option 3

Almhall, sister of Morna

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almhall	Almhall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Almhall	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Morna	case
5	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bovmall, sister of Uail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bovmall	Bovmall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bovmall	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Uail	case
5	Uail	Uail	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod

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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