--- title: What is the meaning of the term Ard-Ri as employed in the present pa… — Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundre… · tree and pragmatics description: What is the meaning of the term Ard-Ri as employed in the present passage? Exam question 4 of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1062-pg2892-part30/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundre…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1062-pg2892-part30/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:… What is the meaning of the term Ard-Ri as employed in the present passage? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** meaning · **What happens:** be, employ, mean · **To what, where:** meaning, present passage, term This is exam question 4 of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1062-pg2892-part30/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:e4:1 # text = What is the meaning of the term Ard-Ri as employed in the present passage? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 Ard Ard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Ri Ri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 employed employ VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the meaning of the term | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **employ** | participle | | the meaning of the term *not said here* | | the present passage | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | | | the term | | | | | nom meaning «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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sea lord ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:e4:o1:1 # text = Sea lord 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Lord of the Province of Meath and its wise laws ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:e4:o2:1 # text = Lord of the Province of Meath and its wise laws 1 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Province Province PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Meath Meath PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 laws law NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} High King ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:e4:o3:1 # text = High King 1 High high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Queen's son ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:e4:o4:1 # text = Queen's son 1 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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