Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi…

According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the mother's death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative, mother · What happens: accord, be, die · To what, where: immediate cause

This is exam question 4 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 narrative	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 cause	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
9	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cause	amod
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 death	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 death	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the narrative	the immediate cause	of the mother's death	tree rules
3	die		the mother			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 broken heart at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 heart	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heart	amod
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 last	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heart	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a fever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

grief and fatigue after her loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 fatigue	cc
3	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grief	conj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 loss	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loss	nmod:poss
6	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grief	nmod

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

Option 4

old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 age	amod
2	age	age	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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