Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden: a fairy m…
At what point in the narrative does the young prince depart with the maiden?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: point, young prince · What happens: do, depart
This is exam question 4 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 narrative | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 narrative | det |
| 6 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 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 | 11 depart | nsubj |
| 11 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 maiden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depart | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | point in the narrative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | depart | present | the young prince | with the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
before the first day of the month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
at dawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | at | at | ADP | _ | 2 dawn | case |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
after the last day of the month, when the curragh came
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curragh | det |
| 11 | curragh | curragh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the curragh | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
after the last day of the month
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | 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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