Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

To whom did the Shifty Lad propose marriage after the death of the Black Rogue?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Shifty Lad, Black Rogue · What happens: propose, die · To what, where: marriage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lad	det
5	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lad	amod
6	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 propose	nsubj
7	propose	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	obj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 death	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 death	det
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Rogue	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rogue	det
14	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Rogue	compound
15	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	the Shifty Lad	marriage			after the death of the Black Rogue		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
2	die		the Black Rogue						nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 miller's daughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 miller	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the king's daughter

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Black Rogue's widow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rogue	det
2	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rogue	compound
3	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 widow	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Rogue	case
5	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the widow of the man he had hanged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 widow	det
2	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 widow	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hanged	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hanged	aux
8	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 man	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hange	past · perfect	man	the man not said here					tree rules

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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