Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…
What was the consequence of the Gruagach's laughter for the wedding?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: consequence
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 consequence | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consequence | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 consequence | det |
| 4 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 laughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gruagach | det |
| 7 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Gruagach | case |
| 9 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consequence | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughter | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 consequence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the consequence | of the Gruagach's laughter for the wedding | 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 · ← Mova's choice
the wedding was moved to the next week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 week | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 week | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 week | amod |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the wedding | week | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the marriage was to take place the next day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the marriage | day | take property | tree rules |
Option 3
the marriage was postponed until the Gruagach had regained his voice and his skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 postponed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 postponed | aux:pass |
| 4 | postponed | postpone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 regained | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gruagach | det |
| 7 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 regained | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 regained | aux |
| 9 | regained | regain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 postponed | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 regained | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skin | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | postpone | past · passive | the marriage | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | regain | past · perfect | the Gruagach | Gruagach's voice and Gruagach's skin | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
Option 4
the wedding was delayed by a whole year while the sheepskin was mended
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wedding | det |
| 2 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delayed | aux:pass |
| 4 | delayed | delay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delayed | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 mended | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheepskin | det |
| 11 | sheepskin | sheepskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mended | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mended | aux:pass |
| 13 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 delayed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delay | past · passive | the wedding | year | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | mend | past · passive | the sheepskin | tree rules |
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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