Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Who undertook to instruct the knight concerning his route to the castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight · What happens: undertake, instruct, concern · To what, where: knight, route

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 undertook	nsubj
2	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 instruct	mark
4	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 undertook	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knight	det
6	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 instruct	obj
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 knight	acl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 route	nmod:poss
9	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 concerning	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 undertook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	undertake	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	instruct speech: other	to-infinitive			the knight		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient
3	concern	gerund	the knight not said here	his route		to the castle	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus route=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

the hermit of Blavet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hermit	det
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Blavet	case
4	Blavet	Blavet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hermit	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the knight of Kerglas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 knight	det
2	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Kerglas	case
4	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knight	nmod

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

Option 3

the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miller	det
2	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the old hermit who lived in a cave beside the river Blavet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hermit	amod
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hermit	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
12	Blavet	Blavet	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 river	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the old hermit			a cave		beside the river	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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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