Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

What was the principal motive of the sea-maiden in responding to the music?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, respond · To what, where: principal motive

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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	5 motive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 motive	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 motive	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 motive	amod
5	motive	motive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 maiden	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maiden	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 motive	advcl
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 responding	mark
12	responding	respond	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 maiden	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 music	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 music	det
15	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 responding	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 motive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal motive					tree rules
2	respond speech: other	gerund						to the music	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme

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 right answer

a fondness for music

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fondness	det
2	fondness	fondness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 music	case
4	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fondness	nmod

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

Option 2

curiosity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a wish for gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wish	det
2	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	nmod

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

Option 4

hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunger	hunger	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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