Exam question 4 · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

Which event immediately preceded the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: event · What happens: proceed, marry · To what, where: marriage, Barbaik

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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 event	det
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preceded	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 preceded	advmod
4	preceded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marriage	det
6	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preceded	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Barbaik	case
8	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 marriage	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Jegu	cc
10	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Barbaik	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 preceded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	which event	the marriage of Barbaik and Jegu				immediately property	tree rules
2	marry			Barbaik and Jegu					nom marriage «state 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 wedding feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feast	compound
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Barbaik's acceptance of Jegu's proposal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 acceptance	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Barbaik	case
3	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 proposal	case
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 proposal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jegu	case
7	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acceptance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept		Barbaik	Jegu's proposal					nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
2	propose		Jegu						nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Jegu's visit to the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 visit	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jegu	case
3	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 visit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit		Jegu					to the lake	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the brownie's first wish granted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brownie	det
2	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wish	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 brownie	case
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 wish	amod
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wish	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant	participle		the brownie's first wish not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	wish		the brownie						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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