Exam question 2 · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…

With reference to the passage, by what route did Fionn traverse the gloomy wood?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: route · What happens: traverse · To what, where: gloomy wood

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1057 «Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy giant offers to race Cael in Fionn's place» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traverse	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 traverse	punct
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 traverse	obl
9	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traverse	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 traverse	aux
11	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 traverse	nsubj
12	traverse	traverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
14	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 traverse	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 traverse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	traverse	past · do-support	route	the gloomy wood				with reference to the passage	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Co-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

Down a worn, rutted path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADP	_	3 worn	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 worn	det
3	worn	worn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 path	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 worn	punct
5	rutted	rut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 path	amod
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rut	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Through the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 trees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

By a hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 hill	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hill	det
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Along a hacked, hollow way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Along	along	ADP	_	6 way	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
3	hacked	hack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 way	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hacked	punct
5	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hack	participle							vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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