Exam question 4 · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Which phenomenon was reported to have accompanied Art's absence from Ireland?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Art · What happens: report, accompany, absent · To what, where: phenomenon, absence, Ireland

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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 phenomenon	det
2	phenomenon	phenomenon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reported	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reported	aux:pass
4	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 accompanied	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 accompanied	aux
7	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 reported	xcomp
8	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 absence	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Art	case
10	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 accompanied	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 Ireland	case
12	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 accompanied	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reported	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	report	past · passive		which phenomenon		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	accompany	to-infinitive · perfect		Art's absence	Ireland	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent absence=Theme from ireland=Destination
3	absent		Art			nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Blight on the cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blight	blight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 cattle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cattle	det
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blight	nmod

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

Option 2

The spoiling of the grain and the silencing of the bells in every hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spoiling	det
2	spoiling	spoiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 grain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grain	det
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoiling	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 silencing	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 silencing	det
8	silencing	silencing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grain	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bells	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bells	det
11	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silencing	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoiling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil		the grain and the silencing of the bells			every hall			nom spoiling «process intransitive»: of=agent in=place

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The failure of the corn and milk and the emptying of the honey hives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 failure	det
2	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 corn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 failure	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 milk	cc
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corn	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 emptying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emptying	det
10	emptying	emptying	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corn	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 hives	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hives	det
13	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hives	compound
14	hives	hive	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 emptying	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail		the corn and milk and the emptying of the honey hives						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent
2	empty			the honey hives					nom emptying «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The failure of the corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 failure	det
2	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 corn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 failure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail		the corn						nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent

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