Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and…

Which giant was reported to possess a thunderbolt in the form of a pancake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: report, possess, form · To what, where: giant, thunderbolt, form, pancake

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2009 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-Maiden: the egg is broken and the sea-maiden dies» 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reported	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reported	aux:pass
4	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 possess	mark
6	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reported	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thunderbolt	det
8	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possess	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 form	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 form	det
11	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 possess	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pancake	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pancake	det
14	pancake	pancake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 form	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reported	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	report	past · passive	which giant		tree rules
2	possess	to-infinitive	a thunderbolt	the form of a pancake	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thunderbolt=Theme
3	form		a pancake		nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

Fin M'Coul

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	M'Coul	M'Coul	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fin	appos

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

Option 2

Knockmany

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knockmany	Knockmany	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The giant from Dungannon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Dungannon	case
4	Dungannon	Dungannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giant	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cucullin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	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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