Exam question 3 · Fionn tales, The Carl of the Drab Coat, part 25: a muddy g…
Which proposal did the Carl advance regarding the course, and to what end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proposal, Carl advance · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: Carl advance, course
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 proposal | det |
| 2 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 advance | det |
| 5 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 advance | compound |
| 6 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 advance | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 course | det |
| 9 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regarding | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 end | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which proposal | the Carl advance | to what end | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | regard | gerund | the Carl advance not said here | the course | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=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 · ← Mova's choice
A race to Tara
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 race | det |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Tara | case |
| 4 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 race | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A feast at Slieve Luachra hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 hill | case |
| 4 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hill | compound |
| 5 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Slieve | flat |
| 6 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A race from Slieve Luachra to Ben Edair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 race | det |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Slieve | case |
| 4 | Slieve | Slieve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 race | nmod |
| 5 | Luachra | Luachra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Slieve | flat |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Ben | case |
| 7 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 race | nmod |
| 8 | Edair | Edair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ben | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wager of gold on the far hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wager | det |
| 2 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wager | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hill | amod |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wager | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wager | gold | the far hill | nom wager «act transitive»: of=patient on=place |
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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