Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

By what term does mac an Da'v describe the two clerics upon their first appearance?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term, Da'v · What happens: do, describe · To what, where: mac, two clerics

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 describe	obl
3	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	mac	mac	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Da'v	det
7	Da'v	Da'v	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 describe	nsubj
8	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clerics	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 clerics	nummod
11	clerics	cleric	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 describe	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 appearance	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 appearance	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 appearance	amod
15	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describe	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	term	mac					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mac=Eventuality
2	describe	infinitive	a Da'v	the two clerics				upon clerics's first appearance	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cleric=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

rogues

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the cowards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cowards	det
2	cowards	coward	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the fools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fools	det
2	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the rascals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rascals	det
2	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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