Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

Pursuant to the text, what annual tribute did Maurice undertake to send to his mother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: annual tribute · What happens: undertake, send · To what, where: text, mother

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 text	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 text	det
4	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 undertake	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 undertake	obj
7	annual	annual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tribute	amod
8	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 undertake	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 undertake	aux
10	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 undertake	nsubj
11	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 text	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 send	mark
13	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 undertake	xcomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 text	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	annual tribute	the text					tree rules
2	send	to-infinitive	annual tribute not said here		Maurice's mother				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mother=Destination

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

a basket of fish and a sealed letter of thanks to the lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basket	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 letter	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 letter	det
7	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 letter	amod
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basket	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 thanks	case
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 letter	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 lady	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lady	det
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanks	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	letter			thanks to the lady					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a fine silver box filled with salt and herbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 box	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 salt	case
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 filled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 herbs	cc
9	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 salt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	participle		a fine silver box not said here				with salt and herbs	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with salt=Instrument

Option 3

a piece of sea-washed glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 washed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 glass	amod
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	participle							vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a piece of burned wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wood	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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