Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Iollan and Tuiren, part 14: Uct Dealv t…

What was the response of the servant when Uct Dealv demanded admittance to the stronghold?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uct · What happens: be, demand · To what, where: response, admittance

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 response	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 response	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 response	det
4	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 servant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 response	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 demanded	advmod
9	Uct	Uct	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 demanded	nsubj
10	Dealv	Dealv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Uct	flat
11	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 response	advcl
12	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanded	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 stronghold	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stronghold	det
15	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 demanded	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 response	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the response				of the servant	tree rules
2	demand speech: request	past	Uct	admittance				to the stronghold	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme admittance=Precondition

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 · ✓ the right answer

He instructed her to leave the dog outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	nsubj
2	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 instructed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	He	her = she					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	to-infinitive	He not said here	the dog				outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 2

He instructed her to leave the dog outside and to come back another day with a gift

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	nsubj
2	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 instructed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 come	mark
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl:unmarked
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 gift	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 gift	det
17	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	He	her = she			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	to-infinitive	He not said here	the dog		outside property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
3	come back	to-infinitive	He not said here		day	with a gift	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He instructed her to leave the dog outside the gate while he ran to fetch his master

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	nsubj
2	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 instructed	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 instructed	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obl
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 ran	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fetch	mark
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ran	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 master	nmod:poss
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	He	her = she		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave	to-infinitive	He not said here	the dog	the gate	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme outside gate=Location
3	run	past	dog			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	fetch	to-infinitive	dog not said here	dog's master		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He ordered her to put the hound on a lead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hound	det
7	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 lead	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lead	det
10	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	He		her = she				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the hound		a lead			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hound=Theme on lead=Destination

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