Exam question 3 · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

What sum did the bishop first propose in exchange for the release of the creature?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, bishop · What happens: do, propose · To what, where: bishop, exchange

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1333 «Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan catches a mouse that eats his wheat, and a bishop reveals the mice are his enemy's wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 sum	det
2	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bishop	det
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 propose	advmod
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bishop	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 exchange	case
9	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 propose	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 release	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 release	det
12	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exchange	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 creature	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 creature	det
15	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 release	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what sum	the bishop					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bishop=Eventuality
2	propose	infinitive	the bishop not said here			exchange for the release of the creature		first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Three pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Twenty-four pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Fourteen pounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pounds	nummod
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Twenty-four pounds and six fine horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 four	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 pounds	nummod
4	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horses	cc
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 horses	nummod
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horses	amod
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pounds	conj

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

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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