Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…

Which name was bestowed upon Fionn by the lads at Moy Life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: bestow · To what, where: name, Moy Life

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bestowed	aux:pass
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Fionn	case
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 lads	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lads	det
9	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bestowed	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Life	case
11	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Life	compound
12	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bestowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · passive	the lads	which name		Moy Life		upon Fionn	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

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

Fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

the Swift Fair One of Moy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fair	det
2	Swift	Swift	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fair	compound
3	Fair	Fair	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 One	nsubj
4	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moy	case
6	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 One	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Fair One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 One	det
2	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 One	amod
3	One	one	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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