Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

Which object did the king employ to pierce the Gruagach's mole?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, pierce · To what, where: king employ, mole

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	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	6 employ	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pierce	mark
8	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Gruagach	det
10	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mole	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Gruagach	case
12	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pierce	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the king employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	pierce	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the Gruagach's mole					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient

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

the sword bearing a knob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sword	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 knob	det
5	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	the sword not said here	a knob					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knob=Patient

Option 2

the spear bearing a point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spear	det
2	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spear	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	gerund	the spear not said here	a point					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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