Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…

State the duration, in weeks, of the Peace of Ireland maintained during the feast at Tara.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Peace · What happens: state, maintain · To what, where: duration, Tara

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1042 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn roasts the salmon, is tempted, and sets out for Tara» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeks	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 weeks	case
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 State	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Peace	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Peace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Peace	det
10	Peace	Peace	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maintained	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ireland	case
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Peace	nmod
13	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 feast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feast	det
16	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 maintained	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 Tara	case
18	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maintained	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the duration			week		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	maintain	past	the Peace of Ireland			Tara	during the feast		vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent

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

nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

six weeks in full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 weeks	nummod
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 full	case
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weeks	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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