Exam question 3 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

What number of men did Cona'n allege had been slain by Fionn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn · What happens: allege, slay · To what, where: Cona'n

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 slain	obl
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 men	case
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 number	nmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slain	aux
6	Cona'n	Cona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 slain	nsubj:pass
7	allege	allege	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Cona'n	flat
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slain	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 slain	aux:pass
10	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Fionn	case
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 slain	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 slain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allege speech: other	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	slay	past · perfect · passive · do-support	Fionn	Cona'n					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

eleven hundred men and their kin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kin	cc
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kin	nmod:poss
6	kin	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 men	conj

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

Option 2

eleven hundred men at Allen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Allen	case
5	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

eleven hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

twelve hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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