Exam question 2 · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What reason does the king give for dismissing the boy from his court?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason, king · What happens: do, give, dismiss · To what, where: boy, court

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1041 «Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge, part 9: Fionn beats the king at chess, is unmasked, and goes to learn from Finegas» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 dismissing	mark
8	dismissing	dismiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 give	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dismissing	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 court	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 court	nmod:poss
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dismissing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	what reason			tree rules
2	give	present	the king			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	dismiss	gerund	the king not said here	the boy	king's court	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent boy=Theme from court=Source

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

He wishes the boy to go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wishes	nsubj
2	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wishes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boy	acl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	He	the boy					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here	the boy not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wants him to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	him = he					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He is jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jealous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					jealous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He fears the boy's death under his protection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fears	nsubj
2	fears	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 death	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fears	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 protection	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 protection	nmod:poss
9	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fear	present	He	the boy's death	boy's protection	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
2	die		the boy			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent
3	protect		boy			nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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