Exam question 2 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

At what location does Goll state that he caused the death of Fionn's father?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Goll, father · What happens: state, cause, die · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1054 «Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 22: Goll outgives Fionn at the banquet and admits killing Fionn's father» 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 state	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 state	aux
5	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 state	nsubj
6	state	state	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 caused	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 caused	nsubj
9	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 state	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 death	det
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 father	case
13	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 father	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Fionn	case
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 state	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · do-support	Goll		tree rules
2	cause	past	Goll	the death of Fionn's father	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
3	die		Fionn's father		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 right answer

Cnocha, in Lochlann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lochlann	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Lochlann	case
4	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cnocha	conj

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

Option 2

Lochlann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Allen, in Lochlann

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lochlann	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Lochlann	case
4	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Allen	conj

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

Option 4

Cnocha, in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cnocha	Cnocha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ireland	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Cnocha	nmod:unmarked

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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