Exam question 2 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…
To which ruler did the couple seek protection after their banishment?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: their · What happens: seek, banish · To what, where: couple
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 ruler | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seek | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 banishment | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 banishment | nmod:poss |
| 11 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seek | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 seek | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · do-support | the couple | after their banishment | to which ruler | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protection=Theme | |||
| 2 | banish | their = they | nom banishment «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 King of Leinster and his men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leinster | case |
| 4 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the King of Connaught
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Connaught | case |
| 4 | Connaught | Connaught | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the High King of all the provinces of Ireland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 provinces | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 provinces | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 provinces | det |
| 7 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 King | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ireland | case |
| 9 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 provinces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the King of Leinster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leinster | case |
| 4 | Leinster | Leinster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
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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