Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

What action did the husband take when the fairies attempted to pull his wife away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: husband, fairies · What happens: take, attempt, pull away · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 husband	det
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 attempted	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fairies	det
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attempted	nsubj
10	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pull	mark
12	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 attempted	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pull	obj
15	away	away	ADV	_	12 pull	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	the husband			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	attempt	past	the fairies			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pull away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fairies not said here	husband's wife	away property	tree rules

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

He made the sign of the cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cross	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	the sign of the cross					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	sign			the cross					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

He made the sign of the cross over the crying fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cross	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 fairies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairies	det
10	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairies	compound
11	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	the sign of the cross				over the crying fairies	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	sign			the cross					nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He shouted at the fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 fairies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fairies	det
5	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	He					at the fairies	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He made the sign of the cross and prayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sign	det
4	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cross	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sign	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 prayed	cc
9	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	He	the sign of the cross	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product
2	pray	past	He not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	sign			the cross	nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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