Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal houn…

Which of the following is the accepted meaning of the term cairn as employed in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, accept, be, employ · To what, where: term cairn, narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 2015 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gellert: Llewelyn slays his loyal hound by mistake» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 meaning	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	8 meaning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 meaning	case
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meaning	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meaning	det
7	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 meaning	amod
8	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 cairn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cairn	det
11	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cairn	compound
12	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meaning	nmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 employed	mark
14	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cairn	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 narrative	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 employed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 meaning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accept	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			of the accepted meaning; of the term cairn	tree rules
4	employ	participle	the term cairn not said here	the narrative		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

a hill of earth for planting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 earth	case
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hill	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 planting	case
6	planting	planting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 earth	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a heap of stones raised as a memorial

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 stones	case
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heap	nmod
5	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heap	acl
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 memorial	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 memorial	det
8	memorial	memorial	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		a heap of stones not said here				as a memorial	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a pile of wood for a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pile	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pile	nmod

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

Option 4

a wooden marker for a grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 marker	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 marker	amod
3	marker	marker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 grave	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grave	det
6	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marker	nmod

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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