Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

By what means does Mongan dispose of the hag who guarded the jewels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mongan, hag · What happens: mean, dispose, guard · To what, where: jewels

This is exam question 3 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 dispose	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 dispose	aux
5	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dispose	nsubj
6	dispose	dispose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hag	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hag	det
9	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dispose	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 guarded	nsubj
11	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hag	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jewels	det
13	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guarded	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 dispose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	dispose	present · do-support	Mongan		of the hag	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
3	guard	past	the hag	the jewels		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary

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

By a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By placing a spike beneath her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 placing	mark
2	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spike	det
4	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placing	obj
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund		a spike				beneath her = she	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spike=Theme beneath she=Destination

Option 3

By placing a stone upon her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 placing	mark
2	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placing	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	gerund		a stone				upon her = she	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme upon she=Destination

Option 4

By placing a spike beneath her as she sat guarding the jewels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 placing	mark
2	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 spike	det
4	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placing	obj
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placing	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sat	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jewels	det
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	gerund	she not said here	a spike	beneath her = she	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spike=Theme beneath she=Destination
2	sit	past	she			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard	gerund	she not said here	the jewels		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Beneficiary

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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