Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fionn, part 8: Fionn grows strong, is h…
At which lake did Fionn enter the service of a king after leaving the boys?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: enter, leave, service · To what, where: service, lake, boys, king
This is exam question 3 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 lake | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 lake | det |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enter | aux |
| 5 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | nsubj |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 service | det |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enter | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 service | nmod |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 leaving | mark |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 enter | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaving | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 enter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · do-support | Fionn | the service of a king | which lake | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Fionn not said here | the boys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | service | a king | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
Loch Le'in beyond the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Le'in | Le'in | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Loch | flat |
| 3 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hills | det |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Loch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Lock Lean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Lean | Lean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lock | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | imperative | you not said here | Lean | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lean=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lock Le'in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Le'in | Le'in | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lock | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The lake of the king of Finntraigh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lake | det |
| 2 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lake | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Finntraigh | case |
| 7 | Finntraigh | Finntraigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | 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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