Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

What did the passage identify as the principal source of Cucullin's strength?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: do, identify

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 passage	det
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 identify	nsubj
5	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 source	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 source	det
8	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 source	amod
9	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 identify	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 strength	case
11	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 strength	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Cucullin	case
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 source	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	identify	present	the passage					as the principal source of Cucullin's strength	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as source=Attribute

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 little finger of his left hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finger	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The middle finger of his right hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finger	nmod

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

Option 3

The middle finger of his right hand, hidden inside his fist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finger	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 finger	punct
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	12 fist	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fist	nmod:poss
12	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle		the middle finger of his right hand		his fist			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside fist=Location

Option 4

The middle finger of his right hand, which he cracked for the glen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 finger	det
2	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cracked	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finger	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cracked	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cracked	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cracked	nsubj
11	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 glen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 glen	det
14	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the middle finger of finger's right hand					for the glen	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme

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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