Exam question 4 · Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defen…

At what annual occasion did Aillen proceed to ravage Tara?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aillen · What happens: proceed, ravage · To what, where: Tara

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1043 «Fionn Tales, Fionn at Tara, part 11: Fionn offers to defend Tara against Aillen» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 proceed	obl
3	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 occasion	amod
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 proceed	aux
6	Aillen	Aillen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 proceed	nsubj
7	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ravage	mark
9	ravage	ravage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 proceed	xcomp
10	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ravage	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 proceed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past · do-support	Aillen						vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	ravage	to-infinitive	Aillen not said here	Tara					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tara=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

At the great autumn feast of Samhain, when the king's hall is full

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 feast	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feast	amod
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feast	compound
5	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Samhain	case
7	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feast	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 full	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 full	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hall	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 full	cop
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Samhain	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the king's hall					full property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

At the feast of Samhain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Samhain	case
5	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod

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

Option 3

At the festival of Imbolc

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 festival	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 festival	det
3	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Imbolc	case
5	Imbolc	Imbolc	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 festival	nmod

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

Option 4

At the feast of Samhain, when the doors between the worlds open wide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Samhain	case
5	Samhain	Samhain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feast	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feast	punct
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 open	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doors	det
9	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 open	nsubj
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 worlds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 worlds	det
12	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doors	nmod
13	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	wide	wide	ADV	_	13 open	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	the doors between the worlds			the feast of Samhain		wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location

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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