Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 5…

Which object did Bellah give Houarn to protect him from the enchantments of wizards?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: give, protect, enchant · To what, where: Houarn, Bellah, wizards

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1330 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 55: Houarn leaves Bellah and is lured to the Groac'h's shell palace» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Houarn	houarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 protect	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 enchantments	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 enchantments	det
12	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protect	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wizards	case
14	wizards	wizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 enchantments	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	which object	Houarn			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houarn=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive	which object not said here		Bellah	from the enchantments of wizards	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from enchantment=Theme
3	enchant			wizards			nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 enchanted knife with silver edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knife	amod
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	compound
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the sharp silver knife he kept in his belt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knife	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knife	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 belt	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 belt	nmod:poss
9	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the sharp silver knife			his belt			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in belt=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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