Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

At what location did the token of the bargain regularly arrive ashore?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: location, bargain · What happens: do, arrive · To what, where: token

This is exam question 3 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 token	det
6	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 arrive	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bargain	det
9	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrive	nsubj
10	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	11 arrive	advmod
11	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 token	acl
12	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	11 arrive	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	location	the token					tree rules
2	arrive	infinitive	the bargain	the token not said here				ashore, regularly property	tree rules

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

Ballinrobe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ballinrobe	Ballinrobe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Trafraska

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the rocky strand beneath the old castle wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 strand	det
2	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strand	amod
3	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wall	amod
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wall	compound
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strand	nmod

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

Option 4

Kilmore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kilmore	Kilmore	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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