Exam question 4 · Irish Myths, Fionn and Saeve, part 17: Fionn hurries home…

Indicate the place at which the invading Danes first came ashore in Ireland.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, invading Danes · What happens: indicate, invade, come · To what, where: place

This is exam question 4 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 place	det
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 came	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Danes	det
7	invading	invade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Danes	amod
8	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 place	acl:relcl
11	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Ireland	case
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the place			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Topic
2	invade	gerund					tree rules
3	come	past	the invading Danes		the place	in Ireland; ashore, first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at which=Location

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

the sandy harbour at the mouth of the river Liffey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 harbour	det
2	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harbour	amod
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 mouth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouth	det
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 harbour	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Liffey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Liffey	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Liffey	compound
10	Liffey	Liffey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mouth	nmod

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

Option 2

Inver Lee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inver	Inver	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Inver	flat

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

Option 3

the bay beneath the western cliffs of Allen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bay	det
2	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 cliffs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cliffs	det
5	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cliffs	amod
6	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bay	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Allen	case
8	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cliffs	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ben Edair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Edair	Edair	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ben	flat

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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