Exam question 4 · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

Which reason did Connachar give for sending Ferchar Mac Ro to Naois?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: reason · What happens: give, send · To what, where: Mac Ro, Naois

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1995 «Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, Naois takes her to Scotland, and Connachar invites them back to a feast» 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 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj:outer
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
4	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 sending	mark
7	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 give	advcl
8	Ferchar	Ferchar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mac	compound
9	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ro	compound
10	Ro	Ro	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sending	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Naois	case
12	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sending	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	which reason						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	send	gerund	which reason not said here	Mac Ro	Naois				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ro=Theme to naois=Destination

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 wanted revenge

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	revenge					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme

Option 2

He hoped Naois would come if asked nicely

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 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	ccomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 asked	mark
7	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 come	advcl
8	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	7 asked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hope	past	He		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	come	would	Naois		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	participle	Naois not said here	nicely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He felt Naois would refuse a plain request

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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 request	det
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 request	amod
8	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	refuse	would	Naois	a plain request					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He believed Naois would not come if merely bidden

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 believed	ccomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 bidden	mark
8	merely	merely	ADV	_	9 bidden	advmod
9	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	believe	past	He		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not come	would	Naois		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bid a condition, not said to happen	participle	Naois not said here	merely property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1995-pg7885-part14/e4/