Exam question 1 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

Identify the Chief whose wife was transformed into a fawn during his absence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, his · What happens: identify, transform, absent · To what, where: Chief, wife, fawn

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1049 «Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home and finds his wife turned into a fawn» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chief	det
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformed	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 transformed	aux:pass
7	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Identify	parataxis
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 fawn	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fawn	det
10	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformed	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 absence	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 absence	nmod:poss
13	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fawn	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the Chief		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent chief=Theme
2	transform	past · passive		wife	into a fawn during his absence result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into fawn=Result
3	absent		his = he			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

Goll

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Bran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Conan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Conan	Conan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fionn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	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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