Exam question 4 · Finn and His Companions, The Little Brawl at Allen, part 2…

What response did Fionn render upon hearing Goll's admission?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: response, Goll · What happens: render, hear, admit · To what, where: admission

This is exam question 4 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	5 render	obj
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 render	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 render	aux
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 render	nsubj
5	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 render	advcl
8	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 admission	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Goll	case
10	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 render	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	render	past · do-support	response		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	hear	gerund	response not said here	Goll's admission	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer admission=Stimulus
3	admit		Goll		nom admission «act transitive»: poss=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

he left the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	he	the hall					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he sat rigid and unmoving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rigid	rigid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 unmoving	cc
5	unmoving	unmov	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rigid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	he					rigid property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	unmov	gerund	he not said here						tree rules

Option 3

he wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	he						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he laughed and drank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drank	cc
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	he not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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