Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…

What instruction did the queen give concerning the Gruagach's mole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instruction, queen · What happens: do, give, concern · To what, where: mole

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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 instruction	det
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 give	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gruagach	det
9	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mole	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Gruagach	case
11	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	what instruction		tree rules
2	give	present	the queen		tree rules
3	concern	gerund	the queen not said here	the Gruagach's mole	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mole=Experiencer

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

hide the mole beneath cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hide	obj
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the mole		cloth			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mole=Patient beneath cloth=Location

Option 2

avoid the mole entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 avoid	obj
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	1 avoid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	the mole				entirely property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mole=Location

Option 3

kiss the mole for luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kiss	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 luck	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kiss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	imperative	you not said here	the mole				for luck	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

strike the mole with the point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strike	strike	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 strike	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 strike	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	imperative	you not said here	the mole				with the point	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mole=Patient with point=Instrument

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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