Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

Which animal bore the recovered treasure to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: bear, recover · To what, where: recovered treasure

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	nsubj
3	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 treasure	det
5	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 treasure	amod
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bore	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Lord	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lord	det
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 castle	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Dunlavin	case
14	Dunlavin	Dunlavin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lord	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 bore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past	which animal	the recovered treasure				to the castle of the Lord of Dunlavin	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient
2	recover	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «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 mare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mare	det
2	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The horse named Bess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 horse	acl
4	Bess	Bess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the horse not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cow	det
2	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ass named Neddy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ass	det
2	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ass	acl
4	Neddy	Neddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	participle		the ass not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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