Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fiachna Finn, part 37: the king is forc…
Explain how the dog dispatched the venomous sheep and the duration the operation required to complete.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: explain, dispatch, require, complete · To what, where: venomous sheep, operation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | Explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dispatched | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dispatched | nsubj |
| 5 | dispatched | dispatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Explain | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sheep | det |
| 7 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sheep | amod |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dispatched | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 duration | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 duration | det |
| 11 | duration | duration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheep | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 operation | det |
| 13 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dispatched | obj |
| 14 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 operation | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 complete | mark |
| 16 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 required | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Explain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dispatch | past | the dog | the venomous sheep and the duration | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | require | participle | the operation not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | complete | to-infinitive | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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
Bite, done fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 done | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bite | punct |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | fast property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Jump and chop, complete in ten minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chop | cc |
| 3 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jump | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 complete | punct |
| 5 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Jump | amod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 minutes | nummod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 complete | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Leap and snap, dragged out for hours
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 snap | cc |
| 3 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leap | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragged | punct |
| 5 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Leap | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 dragged | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | snap | infinitive | you not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drag out | participle | you not said here | hour | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Chop and bite, done in an hour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chop | chop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bite | cc |
| 3 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Chop | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Chop | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 done | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | imperative | you not said here | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | you not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | you not said here | hour | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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