Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…

To what place does the maiden invite the young prince in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: place · What happens: do · To what, where: maiden invite

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 invite	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 invite	amod
7	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prince	amod
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrative	det
13	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prince	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	place	the maiden invite					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invite=Eventuality

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 Hall of Golden Song, Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hall	det
2	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Song	case
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Song	amod
5	Song	Song	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hall	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Tara	punct
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Song	conj

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

Option 2

the Plain of Sweet Rest, Tara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Plain	det
2	Plain	Plain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Sweet	case
4	Sweet	Sweet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Plain	nmod
5	Rest	Rest	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Plain	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Tara	punct
7	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rest	conj

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

Option 3

the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Plain of Pleasure, Moy Mell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Plain	det
2	Plain	Plain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Pleasure	case
4	Pleasure	Pleasure	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Plain	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Moy	punct
6	Moy	Moy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Plain	conj
7	Mell	Mell	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Moy	flat

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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