Exam question 1 · The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy…

In which country is the widow's dwelling situated, according to the opening passage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dwell, be, accord · To what, where: widow, country

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1276 «The Lilac Fairy Book, The Shifty Lad, part 1: a clever boy's mother saves up to send him to school and then to a trade» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 situated	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 situated	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 widow	det
6	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 situated	nsubj:pass
7	's	's	PART	_	6 widow	case
8	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 situated	nsubj:pass
9	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 passage	punct
11	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 passage	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 according	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passage	det
14	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passage	compound
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 situated	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 situated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	gerund				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present · passive	the widow	which country	situate property	tree rules
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Erin, the ancient name for Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 name	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 name	amod
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Erin	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod

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

Option 2

Wales, the land of the old kings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wales	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 kings	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kings	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kings	amod
8	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 land	nmod

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

Option 3

Scotland, the north of the isle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 north	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 north	det
4	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scotland	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 isle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 isle	det
7	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 north	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ireland, though the old texts call it Erin and also Hibernia, a Roman name

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 call	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 texts	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 texts	amod
6	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ireland	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	obj
9	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Hibernia	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 Hibernia	advmod
12	Hibernia	Hibernia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Erin	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 name	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 name	det
15	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 name	amod
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Erin	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	the old texts	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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