Exam question 3 · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What prophecy is foretold concerning the poet Finegas?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: foretell, concern · To what, where: prophecy, poet

This is exam question 3 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	PRON	PronType=Int	4 foretold	obj
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foretold	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 foretold	aux:pass
4	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 foretold	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poet	det
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 concerning	obj
8	Finegas	Finegas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 poet	appos
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 foretold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foretell	present · passive		prophecy					tree rules
2	concern	gerund		the poet					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poet=Experiencer

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

He will catch the Salmon of Knowledge after seven years at the river and become wise

The tree, 16 words

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 catch	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Salmon	det
5	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Knowledge	case
7	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Salmon	nmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 years	case
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 become	cc
15	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
16	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	future	He	the Salmon of Knowledge		the river	year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme at river=Asset
2	become	infinitive	He not said here					wise property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He will catch the Salmon of Knowledge and his pupil will eat it and be wise at the court

The tree, 19 words

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 catch	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Salmon	det
5	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Knowledge	case
7	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Salmon	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pupil	nmod:poss
10	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wise	cc
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 wise	cop
16	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 catch	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 court	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 court	det
19	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	future	He	the Salmon of Knowledge	the court		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme at court=Asset
2	eat	future	Knowledge's pupil	Salmon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is	infinitive	He not said here			wise property	tree rules

Option 3

He will lose the Salmon in the river

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 lose	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Salmon	det
5	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future	He	the Salmon		the river			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He will catch the Salmon of Knowledge

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 catch	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Salmon	det
5	Salmon	Salmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Knowledge	case
7	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Salmon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	future	He	the Salmon of Knowledge					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme

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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