Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

By what means did Oonagh cause Cucullin to injure his own teeth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oonagh, Cucullin · What happens: mean, cause, injure · To what, where: Cucullin, own teeth

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 cause	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
5	Oonagh	Oonagh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nsubj
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cause	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 injure	mark
9	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cause	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 injure	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cause	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	cause	past · do-support	Oonagh	Cucullin	tree rules
3	injure	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	Oonagh's own teeth	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

By hiding iron bars in the bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hiding	mark
2	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bars	compound
4	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hiding	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bread	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		iron bars		the bread			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bar=Patient in bread=Location

Option 2

By baking iron griddles into the cakes for him to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 baking	mark
2	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 griddles	compound
4	griddles	griddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 baking	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cakes	det
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 baking	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cakes	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 baking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	gerund		iron griddles		the cakes for him			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent griddle=Material into cake=Product
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By baking iron griddles into the cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 baking	mark
2	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 griddles	compound
4	griddles	griddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 baking	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cakes	det
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 baking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	gerund		iron griddles		the cakes			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent griddle=Material into cake=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

By baking the cakes with stone inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 baking	mark
2	baking	bake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cakes	det
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 baking	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 baking	obl
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 baking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	gerund		the cakes				with stone; inside property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cake=Patient with stone=Instrument

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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