Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

What was the principal motive for the betrothal of the infants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, betroth · To what, where: principal motive, infants

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 motive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 motive	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 motive	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 motive	amod
5	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 betrothal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 betrothal	det
8	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 motive	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 infants	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 infants	det
11	infants	infant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 betrothal	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 motive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal motive				for the betrothal of the infants	tree rules
2	betroth			the infants					nom betrothal «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

to win the Land of Promise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 win	mark
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Land	det
4	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 win	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Promise	case
6	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Land	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	to-infinitive		the Land of Promise					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality

Option 2

to end the enmity between Fiachna Duv and Fiachna Finn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enmity	det
4	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 Fiachna	case
6	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 enmity	nmod
7	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fiachna	flat
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Fiachna	cc
9	Fiachna	Fiachna	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Fiachna	conj
10	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fiachna	flat

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		the enmity				between Fiachna and Fiachna	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality enmity=Eventuality

Option 3

to end the enmity and gain both kingdoms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enmity	det
4	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gain	cc
6	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 end	conj
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kingdoms	det
8	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gain	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		the enmity					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality enmity=Eventuality
2	gain	infinitive		both kingdoms					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to end the enmity between the two Fiachnas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 end	mark
2	end	end	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 enmity	det
4	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 Fiachnas	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fiachnas	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Fiachnas	nummod
8	Fiachnas	Fiachnas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 enmity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	to-infinitive		the enmity				between the two Fiachnas	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality enmity=Eventuality

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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