Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'…

State the period for which the king caused a man to attend the queen's grave each morning.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State period · What happens: cause, attend · To what, where: man, grave

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 period	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 period	det
3	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 caused	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	nsubj
8	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 attend	mark
12	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 man	acl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 queen	det
14	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grave	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 queen	case
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attend	obj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attend	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	the State period	a man					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition man=Patient
2	attend	to-infinitive	the State period not said here	the queen's grave			morning		vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Goal

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

Seven years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The king kept a man at the grave for seven years each morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the king	a man		the grave	morning; year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme at grave=Location

Option 3

Each morning for the full length of seven long years at the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 length	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 length	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 length	amod
6	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 length	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 length	nmod

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

Option 4

Seven months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 months	nummod
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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