--- title: According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the moth… — Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a b… · tree and pragmatics description: According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the mother's death? Exam question 4 of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1305-pg3454-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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a b…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1305-pg3454-part30/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances wi… According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the mother's death? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** narrative, mother · **What happens:** accord, be, die · **To what, where:** immediate cause This is exam question 4 of lesson 1305 «Irish Fairy Tales, Maurice Connor: a blind piper dances with a sea lady and forgets his mother on the shore» 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/1305-pg3454-part30/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1305-pg3454-part30:e4:1 # text = According to the narrative, what was the immediate cause of the mother's death? 1 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 narrative narrative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 immediate immediate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | the narrative | the immediate cause | | | | of the mother's death | tree rules | | 3 | **die** | | the mother | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} a broken heart at last ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1305-pg3454-part30:e4:o1:1 # text = a broken heart at last 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} a fever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1305-pg3454-part30:e4:o2:1 # text = a fever 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} grief and fatigue after her loss ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1305-pg3454-part30:e4:o3:1 # text = grief and fatigue after her loss 1 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 fatigue fatigue NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} old age ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1305-pg3454-part30:e4:o4:1 # text = old age 1 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 age age 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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