Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

With what object did the robber advise Fionn to swim in the lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robber · What happens: advise, swim · To what, where: Fionn, lake

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1040 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is hunted, leaves the boys' lake and serves a king» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 advise	obl
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 advise	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robber	det
6	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advise	nsubj
7	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 advise	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swim	mark
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 advise	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 advise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past · do-support	the robber		Fionn				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent fionn=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swim not said to happen	to-infinitive	the robber not said here			the lake			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory

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

a flat stone for weighting his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 weighting	mark
5	weighting	weight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stone	acl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weighting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weight	gerund	a flat stone not said here	his head					vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme head=Recipient

Option 2

a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a sharp hunting blade of bronze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 blade	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blade	amod
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blade	compound
4	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bronze	case
6	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blade	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	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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