Exam question 2 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the story…

To whom does the abbot of Moville address his request for the collection of old narratives?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: abbot · What happens: do, address, request · To what, where: request

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1067 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 35: the storyteller Cairide tells his tale to the abbot, while the Flame Lady grows jealous of Duv Laca» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 address	obl
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 abbot	det
5	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 address	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Moville	case
7	Moville	Moville	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 abbot	nmod
8	address	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 request	nmod:poss
10	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 address	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 collection	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 collection	det
13	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 address	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 narratives	case
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 narratives	amod
16	narratives	narrative	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 collection	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 address	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	address	present	the abbot of Moville	abbot's request	for the collection of old narratives	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Destination
3	request		abbot			nom request «communication 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

to the old men of Moville who remember the tales of the kings and queens of Ireland

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	4 men	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moville	case
6	Moville	Moville	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 men	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 remember	nsubj
8	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 men	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tales	det
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 remember	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kings	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kings	det
13	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tales	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 queens	cc
15	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kings	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Ireland	case
17	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 kings	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	the old men of Moville	the tales of the kings of Ireland and queens					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	tell		the kings of Ireland and queens						nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

to the kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 kings	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kings	det
3	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to the story-tellers of Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	5 tellers	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tellers	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tellers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
5	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tellers	nmod

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

Option 4

to the abbots of the Irish churches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 abbots	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 abbots	det
3	abbots	abbot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 churches	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 churches	det
6	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 churches	amod
7	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 abbots	nmod

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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