Exam question 2 · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

In which location does the dancing assembly convene upon the strand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dancing assembly · What happens: convene · To what, where: location

This is exam question 2 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convene	obl
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 convene	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 assembly	det
6	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 assembly	compound
7	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convene	nsubj
8	convene	convene	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 strand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strand	det
11	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convene	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 convene	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convene	present · do-support	the dancing assembly			which location		upon the strand	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

On the clean smooth strand at the bay's edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	5 strand	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strand	det
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strand	amod
4	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 strand	amod
5	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bay	det
8	bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 bay	case
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strand	nmod

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

Option 2

Trafraska Strand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trafraska	Trafraska	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Strand	Strand	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Trafraska	flat

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

Option 3

Iveragh Harbour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Harbour	Harbour	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Iveragh	flat

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ballinskellig Bay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ballinskellig	Ballinskellig	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bay	compound
2	Bay	Bay	PROPN	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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