Exam question 3 · Fionn Tales, The Brawl at the Feast, part 23: Goll's boast…

What was the number of Fionn's people who died at the banquet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: number, people · What happens: be, die · To what, where: banquet

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
6	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 people	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Fionn	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 number	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 banquet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 banquet	det
13	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the number of Fionn's people						tree rules
2	die	past	Fionn's people			the banquet			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 women at the banquet

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	_	5 women	cc
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 men	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 banquet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 banquet	det
8	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod

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

Option 2

Eleven hundred of the Fianna and their wives

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
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Fianna	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fianna	det
5	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hundred	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wives	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wives	nmod:poss
8	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Fianna	conj

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

Nine hundred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	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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