Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Mongan's Frenzy: Mongan tricks the prie…

What is the consequence of the King of Leinster's mistaken attack upon Tibraide's men?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leinster · What happens: be, attack · To what, where: consequence

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Int	4 consequence	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 consequence	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 consequence	det
4	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 attack	case
9	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 attack	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Leinster	case
11	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 attack	amod
12	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consequence	nmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 men	case
14	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 men	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Tibraide	case
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 attack	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 consequence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the consequence				of the King; of Leinster's mistaken attack upon Tibraide's men	tree rules
2	attack		Leinster					upon Tibraide's men	nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent upon=obl

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 · ✓ the right answer

He apologises to Tibraide' afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 apologises	nsubj
2	apologises	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Tibraide	case
4	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 apologises	obl
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Tibraide	case
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 apologises	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	He		Tibraide			afterwards property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He apologises to Tibraide' afterwards and gives him back all his men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 apologises	nsubj
2	apologises	apologise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Tibraide	case
4	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 apologises	obl
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Tibraide	case
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 apologises	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gives	cc
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 apologises	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gives	iobj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 gives	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 men	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 men	nmod:poss
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	present	He		Tibraide			afterwards property	tree rules
2	give back	present	He not said here	Tibraide's men	Tibraide				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient man=Theme

Option 3

He sends his army after Tibraide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 army	nmod:poss
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 Tibraide	case
6	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	He	his army			after Tibraide		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme

Option 4

He kills Tibraide's men at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kills	nsubj
2	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tibraide	Tibraide	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 men	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Tibraide	case
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kills	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	He	Tibraide's men		the gate			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme

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