Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft fro…
Which creature assumed command over the company of cats in Conall's narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: assume
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1989 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, part 8: a theft from the king's stable, then a tale of cats» 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 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 command | nsubj |
| 3 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 command | amod |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 command | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cats | case |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 company | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 narrative | case |
| 11 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 narrative | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Conall | case |
| 13 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cats | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 command | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | participle | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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
The fox cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cat | compound |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The head bard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bard | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bard | compound |
| 3 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The eldest one-eyed tabby cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 eldest | nummod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cat | amod |
| 6 | tabby | tabby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | compound |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eldest | obj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The one-eyed fox-coloured cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fox | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 4 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coloured | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fox | punct |
| 7 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cat | amod |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1989-pg7885-part8/e4/