Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary,…
Which expression does the narrator employ to characterise the state of the two men while they awaited her recovery?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: expression, men, narrator · What happens: employ, characterise, await, recover · To what, where: state, recovery
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1987 «Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Guleesh: the herb wakes Mary, and they wed» 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 expression | det |
| 2 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 employ | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 narrator | det |
| 5 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | nsubj |
| 6 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 characterise | mark |
| 8 | characterise | characterise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 state | det |
| 10 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterise | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 state | nmod |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 awaited | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 awaited | nsubj |
| 17 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 characterise | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 19 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 awaited | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 employ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | present · do-support | which expression | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | characterise | to-infinitive | which expression not said here | the state of the two men | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | await | past | men = man | narrator's recovery | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recover | narrator | nom recovery «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
in great fear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 fear | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fear | amod |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
between sleep and waking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | between | between | ADP | _ | 2 sleep | case |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 waking | cc |
| 4 | waking | waking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sleep | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
between hope and unhope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | between | between | ADP | _ | 2 hope | case |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 unhope | cc |
| 4 | unhope | unhope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
torn between joy and sorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 torn | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sorrow | cc |
| 5 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 joy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | joy and sorrow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between joy=Trajectory |
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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