Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

Which term denotes the figure of speech used by the king to express affection toward the goose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: term · What happens: denote, use, express, figure · To what, where: figure, speech, affection

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» 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 term	det
2	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	nsubj
3	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 figure	det
5	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denotes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 speech	case
7	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figure	nmod
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 speech	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 express	mark
13	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 used	advcl
14	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 express	obj
15	toward	toward	ADP	_	17 goose	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goose	det
17	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 express	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 denotes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	denote	present	which term	the figure of speech		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot figure=Topic
2	use	participle		speech not said here	by the king	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	express	to-infinitive		affection	toward the goose	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme
4	figure			speech		nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Ma vourneen, my dear little goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	vourneen	vourneen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Ma	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goose	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 goose	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goose	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goose	amod
7	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ma	conj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Irish phrase for dear heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phrase	det
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 phrase	amod
3	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 heart	case
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heart	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 phrase	nmod

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

Option 3

Mo chroí-dear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	chroí	chroí	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dear	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 chroí	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mo	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ma vourneen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ma	ma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	vourneen	vourneen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Ma	flat

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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