Test 7 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats…

What was the countess's big ultimatum, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big ultimatum · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 countess	det
4	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ultimatum	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 countess	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ultimatum	amod
7	ultimatum	ultimatum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the countess's big ultimatum						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 · ← Mova's choice

Marry one of us or pick a steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Marry	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 pick	cc
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Marry	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 steward	det
8	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	one of us					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	pick	infinitive	you not said here	a steward					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steward=Patient

Option 2

Wed one of us or choose a lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wed	wed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 one	amod
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 choose	cc
6	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 us	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lord	det
8	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	infinitive		a lord					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme

Option 3

Leave the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the castle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Marry one of us or pick a new lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Marry	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 pick	cc
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Marry	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lord	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lord	amod
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	imperative	you not said here	one of us					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	pick	infinitive	you not said here	a new lord					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient

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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