Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…
What is the meaning of the term Ard-Ri as employed in the present passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: meaning · What happens: be, employ, mean · To what, where: meaning, present passage, term
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meaning | det |
| 4 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 term | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 term | det |
| 7 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meaning | nmod |
| 8 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 term | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ri | punct |
| 10 | Ri | Ri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ard | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 employed | mark |
| 12 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 meaning | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 passage | det |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 passage | amod |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 employed | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the meaning of the term | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | employ | participle | the meaning of the term not said here | the present passage | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | the term | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
Sea lord
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lord | compound |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Lord of the Province of Meath and its wise laws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Province | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Province | det |
| 4 | Province | Province | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lord | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Meath | case |
| 6 | Meath | Meath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Province | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laws | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 laws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laws | amod |
| 10 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lord | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
High King
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 King | amod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Queen's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Queen | case |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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