Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

At what hour of the day was the Shee an Gannon named, according to the opening of the second tale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: name, accord · To what, where: Shee Gannon

This is exam question 4 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 hour	nsubj
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 named	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hour	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 named	aux:pass
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gannon	det
9	Shee	Shee	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Gannon	compound
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Gannon	det
11	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 named	nsubj:pass
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 opening	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 opening	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 opening	det
17	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 named	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 tale	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tale	det
20	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 tale	amod
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opening	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 named	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the Shee Gannon			hour	accord the opening of the second tale	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

At dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

At dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

At sunrise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunrise	case
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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