Exam question 4 · Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge,…

What is the stated limit of the poet's answers to questions?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated limit, poet · What happens: be, state, answer

This is exam question 4 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 limit	det
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 limit	amod
5	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 answers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poet	det
8	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answers	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 poet	case
10	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 limit	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 questions	case
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 answers	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stated limit of the poet's answers to questions		tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	answer		the poet	to questions	nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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

a man's readiness is his limit, not the poet's own knowledge or the river's depth

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 readiness	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 limit	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 limit	nmod:poss
7	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knowledge	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 knowledge	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poet	det
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knowledge	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 poet	case
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knowledge	amod
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limit	appos
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 depth	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 depth	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 river	case
19	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knowledge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a man's readiness	man's limit					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a man's readiness is the only limit, as the poet told the boy at the river in summer

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 readiness	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 limit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 limit	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 limit	det
7	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 limit	amod
8	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 told	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poet	det
12	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 limit	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	iobj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 summer	case
20	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a man's readiness	the only limit					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the poet		the boy	the river	summer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a man's readiness is his limit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 readiness	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 limit	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 limit	nmod:poss
7	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a man's readiness	man's limit					tree rules

Option 4

a man's strength is the limit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strength	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limit	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 limit	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 limit	det
7	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a man's strength	the limit					tree rules

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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