Exam question 1 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

Pursuant to the text, by what means did Fiachna Finn acquire the sovereignty of Lochlann?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fiachna · What happens: mean, acquire · To what, where: sovereignty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 acquire	aux
10	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 acquire	nsubj
11	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fiachna	flat
12	acquire	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sovereignty	det
14	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 acquire	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Lochlann	case
16	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sovereignty	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						to the text	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	acquire	past · do-support	Fiachna	the sovereignty of Lochlann					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

By victory in battle before nightfall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 victory	case
2	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 battle	case
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 victory	nmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 nightfall	case
6	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 victory	nmod

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

Option 2

By treaty at the sea-shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 treaty	case
2	treaty	treaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shore	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shore	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 treaty	nmod

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

Option 3

By cunning and a cradle-bride from Leinster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 cunning	case
2	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bride	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bride	det
5	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bride	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 cradle	punct
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cunning	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Leinster	case
9	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bride	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By victory in battle before nightfall, and a gift of cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 victory	case
2	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 battle	case
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 victory	nmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 nightfall	case
6	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 battle	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gift	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gift	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gift	det
10	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 victory	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 cattle	case
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gift			cattle					nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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