Exam question 4 · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

To what did the wise man allude when he cautioned Manus concerning his bride?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wise man, man · What happens: allude, caution, concern · To what, where: Manus, bride

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1159 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manus is cheated of his share and is offered a sword» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 allude	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 allude	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 allude	nsubj
7	allude	allude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 cautioned	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cautioned	nsubj
10	cautioned	caution	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 allude	advcl
11	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cautioned	obj
12	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cautioned	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bride	nmod:poss
14	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 concerning	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 allude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	allude	past · do-support	the wise man			tree rules
2	caution speech: other	past	man		Manus	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manus=Recipient
3	concern	gerund	man not said here	man's bride		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bride=Experiencer

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 rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The cold winter snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snow	compound
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The swift March wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 swift	det
2	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wind	nmod:unmarked
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swift	conj

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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