Exam question 4 · Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn…

Which emotion does Fionn display when he remarks that the kill will be easy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emotion, Fionn, kill · What happens: display, remark, be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1048 «Celtic Legends, Fionn and the Fawn, part 16: the pet fawn is spared, and Saeve comes to Fionn's door at night» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 emotion	det
2	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 display	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 display	aux
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 display	nsubj
5	display	display	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 remarks	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remarks	nsubj
8	remarks	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 display	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 easy	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kill	det
11	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 easy	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 easy	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 easy	cop
14	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 remarks	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 display	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	display	present · do-support	which emotion		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	remark speech: assert	present	Fionn		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	future	the kill	easy property	tree rules

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

fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

regret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

bitter regret over the fawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 regret	amod
2	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 fawn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fawn	det
5	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 regret	nmod

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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