Exam question 3 · Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a stra…

What undertaking does Fionn make at the close of this part with regard to Caelte mac Rona'n?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: undertaking · What happens: make · To what, where: close

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1056 «Fionn's Fianna, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 24: a strange lord arrives by sea and challenges the Fianna to a contest» 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 make	obj
2	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 close	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 close	det
8	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 regard	case
13	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 mac	case
15	Caelte	Caelte	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mac	compound
16	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 regard	nmod
17	Rona'n	Rona'n	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 mac	flat
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	undertaking			the close of this part with regard to Caelte mac			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product

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

He resolves to fetch the champion in person, leaving the camp and riding north alone at dawn

The tree, 17 words

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 resolves	nsubj
2	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 resolves	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 champion	det
6	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 person	case
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leaving	punct
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 resolves	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 camp	det
12	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 riding	cc
14	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 leaving	conj
15	north	north	ADV	_	14 riding	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 north	fixed
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 dawn	case
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present	He				tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	He not said here	the champion		in person	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Theme
3	leave	gerund	He not said here	the camp			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme
4	ride	gerund	He not said here		dawn	north property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He decides to send a messenger to call him

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 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 send	mark
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decides	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 call	mark
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 send	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	decide	present	He			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	a messenger		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
3	call	to-infinitive	He not said here		him = he	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He resolves to fetch the champion in person

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 resolves	nsubj
2	resolves	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 resolves	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 champion	det
6	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 person	case
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present	He						tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	He not said here	the champion				in person	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Theme

Option 4

He decides to call the champion back

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 decides	nsubj
2	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 call	mark
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decides	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 champion	det
6	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 call	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	He						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call back speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the champion					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent champion=Recipient

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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