Exam question 1 · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

Which individual is described as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe · To what, where: individual

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 sovereign	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sovereign	det
7	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pipers	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 pipers	det
10	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sovereign	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Munster	case
12	Munster	Munster	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 pipers	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which individual				as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as sovereign=Attribute

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

Father Conry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Conry	Conry	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat

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

Option 2

The blind piper of Iveragh and Munster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 piper	det
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 piper	amod
3	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Iveragh	case
5	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 piper	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Munster	cc
7	Munster	Munster	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Iveragh	conj

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

Option 3

Paddy Dorman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paddy	Paddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Dorman	Dorman	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Paddy	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Maurice Connor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Maurice	flat

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

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