Test 1 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats…
Mate, did Owen actually win the fight or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, win · To what, where: Owen, fight
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1325 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats the black knight and gets trapped in a drawbridge» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 6 win | advmod |
| 6 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 win | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | Owen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owen=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | win | present | Mate not said here | the fight | actually property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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
Nah, he just missed and fell off his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 missed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 missed | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 missed | advmod |
| 5 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 missed | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 fell | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | he | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fall off | past | he not said here | his horse | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient horse=Extent |
Option 2
Yeah, he hit the shield and the knight fled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hit | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shield | det |
| 6 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hit | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | he | the shield | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shield=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | the knight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull right down the middle of the fight
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 whacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whacked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whacked | nsubj |
| 4 | whacked | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 helmet | det |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whacked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 split | cc |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whacked | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skull | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 middle | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 middle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 middle | det |
| 14 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fight | det |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack | past | he | the helmet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | split | past | he not said here | his skull | down the middle of the fight | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 whacked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 whacked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whacked | nsubj |
| 4 | whacked | whack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 helmet | det |
| 6 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whacked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 split | cc |
| 8 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whacked | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skull | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 split | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whack | past | he | the helmet | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | split | past | he not said here | his skull | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |
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