Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Salmon of Knowledge, part 10: Fionn…
Indicate the season at which the feast of Tara was convened and the festival to which it was connected.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: indicate, convene, connect · To what, where: feast
This is exam question 4 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 | Indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 season | det |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Indicate | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 convened | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tara | case |
| 9 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 convened | aux:pass |
| 11 | convened | convene | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 season | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 festival | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 festival | det |
| 14 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 convened | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 connected | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 connected | aux:pass |
| 19 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 festival | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indicate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indicate | imperative | you not said here | season | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | convene | past · passive | the feast of Tara | at the season | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | connect | past · passive | feast | to the festival | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-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
Imbolc-tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imbolc | Imbolc | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imbolc | punct |
| 3 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imbolc | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Samhain-tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samhain | Samhain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tide | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Samhain | punct |
| 3 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
harvest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bealtaine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bealtaine | Bealtaine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 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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