Exam question 2 · Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12:…
Which object did the king of Erin entrust to Ian Direach as the reward for his faithful service?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, king · What happens: do, entrust, service · To what, where: Ian
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1146 «Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Ian Direach, part 12: the fox sails Ian to Erin and France, and the princess is tricked aboard» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entrust | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Erin | case |
| 7 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | entrust | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ian | case |
| 10 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entrust | obl |
| 11 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ian | flat |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 reward | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reward | det |
| 14 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 service | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 service | nmod:poss |
| 17 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 service | amod |
| 18 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | as the reward; for king's faithful service | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | entrust | present | the king of Erin | Ian | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ian=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | service | king | nom service «act 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 white stag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stag | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stag | amod |
| 3 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The bay colt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 colt | det |
| 2 | bay | bay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 colt | amod |
| 3 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The grey mare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mare | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mare | amod |
| 3 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A gold cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | compound |
| 3 | cup | cup | 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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