Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

By what means does Mongan transform the priests' road into a river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mongan · What happens: mean, transform · To what, where: road, river

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1073 «Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the priests and wins back Duv Laca» 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	6 transform	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 transform	aux
5	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 transform	nsubj
6	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 priests	det
8	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 road	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 priests	case
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transform	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transform	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 transform	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	transform	present · do-support	Mongan	the priests's road				into a river result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent road=Patient into river=Result

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

By calling to the wind over the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 calling	mark
2	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calling	obl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			the wind	the road			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By striking the road with his staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 striking	mark
2	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 striking	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 staff	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 staff	nmod:poss
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 striking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	gerund		the road				with his staff	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent road=Patient with staff=Instrument

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By waving his hand at the priests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 waving	mark
2	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waving	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 priests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priests	det
7	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund		his hand		the priests			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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