Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

With reference to the text, what was the cause of the Gruagach's silence?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reference, Gruagach · What happens: be, silence · To what, where: cause

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2004 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cause	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 cause	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cause	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cause	det
10	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 silence	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Gruagach	det
13	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 silence	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Gruagach	case
15	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cause	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	reference to the text and the cause	the cause				of the Gruagach's silence	tree rules
2	silence		the Gruagach						nom silence «state transitive»: poss=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

his sons were gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sons	nmod:poss
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his sons					gone property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the loss of his twelve sons and his flayed back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sons	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loss	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flayed	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flayed	nmod:poss
9	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sons	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 flayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flay back	participle							tree rules

Option 3

the death of his wife and his burned hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 death	det
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wife	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 death	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hall	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hall	nmod:poss
8	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	participle							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die		his wife and his burned hall						nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

the loss of his twelve sons and his stolen cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 sons	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sons	nmod:poss
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loss	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cloak	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cloak	nmod:poss
9	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cloak	amod
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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