Exam question 1 · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…
By what principle did Cormac mac Art reject the pronouncement of Flahri regarding damages?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principle · What happens: do, reject, regard, pronounce · To what, where: Cormac mac Art, pronouncement, Flahri
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1055 «Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast starts a hall-wide fight, then judges at Tara give their ruling» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 reject | obl |
| 3 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Art | compound |
| 6 | mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Art | compound |
| 7 | Art | Art | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | reject | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pronouncement | det |
| 10 | pronouncement | pronouncement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reject | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Flahri | case |
| 12 | Flahri | Flahri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pronouncement | nmod |
| 13 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 damages | case |
| 14 | damages | damage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pronouncement | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 reject | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | principle | Cormac mac Art | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reject | present | the pronouncement of Flahri | regard damages | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronouncement=Theme | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pronounce | Flahri | regard damages | nom pronouncement «communication transitive»: of=patient regard=obl |
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
A soldier owes obedience to his captain and his king at all times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | nsubj |
| 3 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 captain | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 captain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 king | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 king | nmod:poss |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 captain | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 owes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | a soldier | obedience | time | to soldier's captain and soldier's king goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme to captain=Goal |
Option 2
A king must judge his men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 judge | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 judge | aux |
| 4 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 judge | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | must | a king | king's men | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent man=Value |
Option 3
The captain must be obeyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 obeyed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 5 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | must · passive | the captain | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A soldier owes obedience to his captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | nsubj |
| 3 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 captain | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 captain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | a soldier | obedience | to soldier's captain goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme to captain=Goal |
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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