Exam question 4 · Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home an…

Which term denotes the High King of Ireland, as employed in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: denote, employ · To what, where: High King, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1053 «Deirdre, Becfola's Wooing, part 21: Becfola sneaks home and the king turns her scolding into a joke» 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
5	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 King	amod
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ireland	case
8	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 employed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 employed	mark
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 denotes	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	which term	the High King of Ireland					vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Topic
2	employ	participle				the passage			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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

The High King of Ireland, at Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ireland	case
5	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Tara	punct
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Tara	case
8	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 King	conj

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

Option 2

Tanaiste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Supreme monarch of the whole island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Supreme	supreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 monarch	amod
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 island	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 island	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 island	amod
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monarch	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ard-Ri

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ard	Ard	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ard	punct
3	Ri	Ri	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ard	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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