Test 10 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…
was owen a hero or a nobody back then
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: owen
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1326 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is healed by a widowed countess and rides out to fight the earl who wants her lands» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 owen | cop |
| 2 | owen | owen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hero | compound |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nobody | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 nobody | det |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 hero | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 hero | advmod |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 back | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | owen | 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
a proper knight who stayed lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knight | acl:relcl |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | a proper knight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | a proper knight not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a proper knight who got lost and then came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knight | acl:relcl |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a proper knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | a proper knight not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come back | past | a proper knight | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
a proper hero
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hero | amod |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a knight who never came back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knight | acl:relcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come back | past | a knight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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