Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

What conclusion does the lion finally reach regarding the donkey's return?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: conclusion, donkey · What happens: do, reach, regard, return · To what, where: lion

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 conclusion	det
2	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 reach	advmod
7	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	advcl
8	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 return	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 donkey	det
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 donkey	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	what conclusion	the lion		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality
2	reach	present	what conclusion not said here		regard the donkey's return; finally property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	return		the donkey			nom return «communication intransitive»: 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

That the donkey had no heart at all inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that donkey	no heart		all		inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 2

That the donkey was a witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that donkey	a witch					tree rules

Option 3

That the hare had tricked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 hare	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · perfect · passive		that hare					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That the donkey had no heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 donkey	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 heart	det
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that donkey	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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