Exam question 2 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

Specify the number of hounds that Fionn took with him when hunting in the years that followed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hounds, years · What happens: specify, take, hunt, follow · To what, where: number

This is exam question 2 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 hounds	case
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 took	nsubj
7	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hounds	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hunting	advmod
12	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 took	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 years	det
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hunting	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 followed	nsubj
17	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 years	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the number of hounds			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
2	take	past	hounds			with Fionn	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hunt	gerund	hounds not said here		year		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	follow	past	the years				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Five hounds, the best from his kennels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hounds	nummod
2	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 best	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 best	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 kennels	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kennels	nmod:poss
8	kennels	kennel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 best	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

One

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

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