Exam question 3 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

State the material of the rod with which the Lady was touched and transformed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: touch, transform · To what, where: Lady

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 material	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rod	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rod	det
6	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 material	nmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 touched	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lady	det
10	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 touched	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 touched	aux:pass
12	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rod	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 transformed	cc
14	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 touched	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 material	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past · passive		the Lady				with the rod	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with which=Instrument
2	transform	participle							vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a bent hazel wand from the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wand	det
2	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wand	amod
3	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wand	compound
4	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wand	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hazel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ash	ash	NOUN	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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