Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv t…
In which of the following locations does Fergus Fionnliath reside at the close of this part?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fergus · What happens: follow, do, reside · To what, where: close
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1046 «Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv turns the queen into a hound and sends her to Fergus» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 does | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 locations | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 locations | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 locations | amod |
| 6 | locations | location | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 does | obl |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reside | nsubj |
| 9 | Fionnliath | Fionnliath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fergus | flat |
| 10 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 does | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 close | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 close | det |
| 13 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reside | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 part | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 part | det |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | of the following locations | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reside | present | Fergus | the close of this part | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at close=Location |
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 Fionn's hall, far to the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 2 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hall | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Fionn | case |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 east | punct |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 east | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hall | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 home | case |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 west | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
At his stronghold, to the west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 stronghold | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stronghold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stronghold | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 west | punct |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 west | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 west | det |
| 7 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stronghold | conj |
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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