Exam question 4 · Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats…

What did Fionn offer Goll following the victory, and how did Goll respond?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fionn, Goll · What happens: offer, follow, respond · To what, where: Goll, victory

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1061 «Old Celtic Romances, The Cave of Cesh Corran: Goll defeats the hags and frees the Fianna» 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	4 offer	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offer	aux
3	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offer	nsubj
4	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 offer	obj
6	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Goll	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 victory	det
8	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 following	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 respond	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 respond	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 respond	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 respond	aux
13	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 respond	nsubj
14	respond	respond	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 offer	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	Fionn	Goll	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal goll=Theme
2	follow	gerund	Goll not said here	the victory	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme
3	respond speech: other	past · do-support	Goll		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 marriage	case
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accepted	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 accepted	obj
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	nsubj
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 pleasure	case
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	His daughter in marriage					with pleasure	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 2

His daughter in marriage, which Goll accepted with pleasure and gratitude before the whole Fianna

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 marriage	case
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accepted	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 accepted	obj
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	nsubj
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 pleasure	case
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gratitude	cc
12	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pleasure	conj
13	before	before	ADP	_	16 Fianna	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fianna	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Fianna	amod
16	Fianna	Fianna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	past	His daughter in marriage				before the whole Fianna	with pleasure and gratitude	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 3

His son in marriage, which Goll refused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 marriage	case
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 refused	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 refused	nsubj
7	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 refused	nsubj
8	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	His son in marriage						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A great feast and a share of land, which Goll refused at first but accepted after Fionn pressed him

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pressed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 share	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 share	det
6	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 share	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 refused	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 refused	nsubj
11	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 refused	nsubj
12	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feast	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 first	case
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 refused	obl
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 accepted	cc
16	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 refused	conj
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 Fionn	case
18	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 accepted	obl
19	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	refuse	past	a great feast and a share of land			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	accept	past	a great feast and a share of land not said here		after Fionn	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	press	past	a great feast and a share of land	Goll		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
4	share			land		nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient

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