Exam question 1 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

Which individual is described in the text as having sighed in a deep and anguished voice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, sigh · To what, where: individual, text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 text	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 text	det
7	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 sighed	mark
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sighed	aux
10	sighed	sigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	16 voice	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 voice	det
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voice	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 anguished	cc
15	anguished	anguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deep	conj
16	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sighed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which individual		the text			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	sigh	gerund · perfect						in a deep voice	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in voice=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

Eoin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eoin	Eoin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Dan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dan	Dan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mongan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Eochaid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eochaid	Eochaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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