Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
State the precise payment that Mananna'n demanded in return for delivering the king from the venomous sheep.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mananna'n · What happens: demand, deliver · To what, where: precise payment, return, king
This is exam question 3 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 payment | det |
| 3 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 payment | amod |
| 4 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | appos |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 demanded | obj |
| 6 | Mananna'n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | nsubj |
| 7 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 payment | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 demanded | obl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 delivering | mark |
| 11 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 demanded | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 delivering | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 sheep | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sheep | det |
| 16 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sheep | amod |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 delivering | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | Mananna'n | the precise payment | return | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Precondition | |||
| 2 | deliver | gerund | Mananna'n not said here | the king | from the venomous sheep | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent king=Theme from sheep=Initial_Location |
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
The rights of the crown for one day, plus all the king's cows and horses
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cows | punct |
| 10 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 15 cows | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 cows | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rights | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 horses | cc |
| 17 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half the gold of the whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 gold | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gold | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 kingdom | amod |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The rights of the crown for one day and his own sandals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sandals | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sandals | amod |
| 12 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rights | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The rights of the crown for one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rights | det |
| 2 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 crown | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | nmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rights | 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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