Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…
What object does Mongan rescue from the falling priest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: rescue, fall · To what, where: falling priest
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rescue | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rescue | aux |
| 4 | Mongan | Mongan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rescue | nsubj |
| 5 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 priest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 priest | det |
| 8 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 priest | amod |
| 9 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rescue | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 rescue | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | present · do-support | what object | the falling priest | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from priest=Source | ||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | 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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