Test 8 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…

owen was well skinny when he got to the castle, right

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owen · What happens: be, get

This is test 8 · ★ 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	owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 skinny	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skinny	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 skinny	advmod
4	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 got	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skinny	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	4 skinny	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	owen					skinny, well property	tree rules
2	get	past	owen					to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result

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

yeah thin and weak when he came, and after three months of food he was properly buff again

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 thin	discourse
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weak	cc
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thin	conj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 buff	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 buff	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 months	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 months	nummod
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 buff	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 buff	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 buff	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 buff	cop
17	properly	properly	ADV	_	18 buff	advmod
18	buff	buff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thin	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 buff	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	he	buff			again; month	of food; properly property	tree rules

Option 2

yeah thin but he had a sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 thin	discourse
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 but	amod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sword	det
7	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a sword					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah thin and weak, but three months later he was buff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 thin	discourse
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weak	cc
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thin	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buff	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 buff	cc
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 later	obl:unmarked
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 buff	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buff	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 buff	cop
12	buff	buff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	buff				late property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah thin and weak when he came, and it took three months of food to fill him out

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 thin	discourse
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weak	cc
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thin	conj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thin	parataxis
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 months	nummod
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 months	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fill	mark
17	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fill	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	17 fill	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	he			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	it		month	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fill out	to-infinitive		him = he		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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