Exam question 2 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…
Which individual was revealed to be the black-faced cleric?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: reveal, be · To what, where: individual, faced cleric
This is exam question 2 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 individual | det |
| 2 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revealed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 revealed | aux:pass |
| 4 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cleric | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cleric | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cleric | det |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 faced | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 black | punct |
| 10 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cleric | amod |
| 11 | cleric | cleric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 revealed | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 revealed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reveal | past · passive | which individual | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the faced cleric | tree rules |
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
Mananna'n the son of Lir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mananna'n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mananna'n | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lir | case |
| 5 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Mananna'n the son of Lir, sea-god
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mananna'n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lir | case |
| 5 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 god | punct |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 god | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Mananna'n the son of Lir and of Ulster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mananna'n | Mananna'n | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mananna'n | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lir | case |
| 5 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Ulster | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ulster | case |
| 8 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lir | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Mongan, the king's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mongan | appos |
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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