Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…

To what extent was Fiachna Finn bound by the Black Hag's judgement when he undertook the campaign against Lochlann?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hag · What happens: be, bind, undertake · To what, where: extent Fiachna, campaign

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1069 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forced to war, the venomous sheep kill his men, and a laughing stranger offers a dog» 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 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Fiachna	compound
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Fiachna	cop
5	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
6	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fiachna	flat
7	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Fiachna	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 judgement	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Hag	det
10	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hag	compound
11	Hag	Hag	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 judgement	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Hag	case
13	judgement	judgement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bound	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 undertook	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 undertook	nsubj
16	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bound	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 campaign	det
18	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertook	obj
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 Lochlann	case
20	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 campaign	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		extent Fiachna		tree rules
2	bind	participle		extent Fiachna not said here	by the Black Hag's judgement	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	undertake	past	Hag	the campaign	against Lochlann	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent campaign=Eventuality

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

He was partly bound by her words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bound	aux:pass
3	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 bound	advmod
4	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past · passive	her words	He				partly property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	word		her = she						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He was fully bound and marched from the west coast to the east coast of Ireland

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bound	aux:pass
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 bound	advmod
4	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 marched	cc
6	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bound	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 coast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coast	det
9	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coast	amod
10	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bound	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 coast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coast	det
13	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coast	amod
14	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bound	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Ireland	case
16	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 coast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past · passive		He		the west coast		to the east coast of Ireland; fully property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to coast=Co-Patient
2	march	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He was bound and marched west to east

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bound	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bound	cop
3	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 marched	cc
5	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bound	conj
6	west	west	ADV	_	5 marched	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 east	case
8	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bound property	tree rules
2	march	past	He not said here					to east result; west property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to east=Result

Option 4

He was free to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 free	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 free	cop
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 free	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					free property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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