Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…
Which person was the son of the king in this episode?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: be · To what, where: son
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1983 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy maiden calls Connla away over the sea» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 episode | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 episode | det |
| 11 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | which person | the son | of the king in this episode | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Connla of the Fiery Hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hair | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hair | det |
| 4 | Fiery | Fiery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hair | compound |
| 5 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Connla | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Fergus of the Red Plain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Plain | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Plain | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Plain | flat |
| 5 | Plain | Plain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fergus | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Conn of the Hundred Fights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Fights | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fights | det |
| 4 | Hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Fights | nummod |
| 5 | Fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Conn | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Connla of the Fiery Hair, son of Conn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connla | Connla | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hair | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hair | det |
| 4 | Fiery | Fiery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hair | compound |
| 5 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Connla | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Connla | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Conn | case |
| 9 | Conn | Conn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
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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