Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, t…
Which of the following animals was described as the oldest and most widely travelled in this world?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe, travell · To what, where: following animals, world
This is exam question 1 of lesson 2001 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, the comb is won, and Kilhuch wins Olwen» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 described | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 described | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 described | aux:pass |
| 7 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 oldest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oldest | det |
| 10 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 described | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 travelled | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 widely | advmod |
| 13 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 14 travelled | advmod |
| 14 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 described | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 travelled | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 described | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | describe | past · passive | the following animals | as the oldest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travell | participle | this world | widely property | tree rules |
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
The Salmon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Salmon | det |
| 2 | Salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Eagle of Gwern Abwy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Abwy | case |
| 4 | Gwern | Gwern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Abwy | compound |
| 5 | Abwy | Abwy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Eagle of Llyn Llyw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Llyw | case |
| 4 | Llyn | Llyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Llyw | compound |
| 5 | Llyw | Llyw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Stag of Redynvre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Stag | det |
| 2 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Redynvre | case |
| 4 | Redynvre | Redynvre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stag | nmod |
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/2001-pg7885-part20/e1/