Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

Which object did the neighbour receive from the king in return for her service?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, neighbour · What happens: receive, service · To what, where: return

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receive	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 receive	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbour	det
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receive	nsubj
6	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receive	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 return	case
11	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 receive	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 service	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 service	nmod:poss
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 return	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 receive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · do-support	which object			return for neighbour's service		from the king	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from king=Source
2	service		neighbour						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 right answer

Five guineas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 guineas	nummod
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Ten shillings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shillings	nummod
2	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two sovereigns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sovereigns	nummod
2	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Five guineas and a silver cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 guineas	nummod
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cup	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cup	det
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cup	compound
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guineas	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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