Test 9 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats…

Did the countess reckon Owen was a random traveller?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: countess, Owen · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: random traveller

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 countess	det
3	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 traveller	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 traveller	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 traveller	det
8	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 traveller	amod
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the countess						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Owen	a random traveller					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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she said he looked like a knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 knight	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	past	he					like a knight	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, she thought he was a beggar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beggar	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beggar	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beggar	det
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a beggar					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she thought he was a squire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 squire	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 squire	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 squire	det
8	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a squire					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, a peasant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 peasant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 peasant	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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