Exam question 2 · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

On what stated ground did Goll mac Morna object to Fionn giving evidence?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ground, mac Morna object · What happens: state, do, give · To what, where: mac Morna object, evidence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 stated	mark
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 stated	nsubj
3	stated	state	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stated	ccomp
6	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mac	compound
7	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 object	compound
8	Morna	Morna	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 object	compound
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stated	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Fionn	case
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 object	nmod
12	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 object	acl
13	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 giving	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	past		mac Morna object	to Fionn	tree rules
2	do	past	ground			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	gerund	mac Morna object not said here	evidence		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme

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

Fionn would turn a lie into truth and so cheat the court of justice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 truth	case
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cheat	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 cheat	advmod
10	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cheat	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 justice	case
14	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Fionn	a lie		truth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lie=Theme into truth=Trajectory
2	cheat	infinitive	Fionn not said here	the court of justice					vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Source

Option 2

Fionn would tell a false tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	would	Fionn	a false tale					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Option 3

Fionn would turn every lie into truth for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 truth	case
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 king	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Fionn	every lie		truth		for the king	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lie=Theme into truth=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fionn would turn a lie into truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 truth	case
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Fionn	a lie		truth			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lie=Theme into truth=Trajectory

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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