Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

What reward did the king bestow upon Conall for his service?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, bestow, service

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bestow	obl
2	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bestow	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	nsubj
6	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Conall	case
8	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 service	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 service	nmod:poss
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestow	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is a	present			tree rules
2	bestow	past · do-support	the king	upon Conall; for king's service	tree rules
3	service		king		nom service «act transitive»: 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

He rewarded Conall with a cow and a small bag of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rewarded	nsubj
2	rewarded	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rewarded	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rewarded	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bag	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bag	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bag	amod
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 coins	case
12	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bag	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reward	past	He		Conall			with a cow and a small bag of coins	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent conall=Recipient with cow=Theme

Option 2

A brown horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He gave to Conall a grey horse and a sack of silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Conall	case
4	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sack	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sack	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 coins	case
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coins	compound
13	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	He	a grey horse and a sack of silver coins	Conall				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to conall=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He bestowed upon Conall the brown horse and a sack of treasure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bestowed	nsubj
2	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 Conall	case
4	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bestowed	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bestowed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sack	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sack	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horse	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 treasure	case
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past	He	the brown horse and a sack of treasure				upon Conall	tree rules

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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