Exam question 4 · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

By whom, according to the bishop's own account, was the charm upon the lands cast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bishop · What happens: accord, be, cast, account · To what, where: charm, lands

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 charm	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct
4	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 account	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 according	fixed
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bishop	det
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 bishop	case
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 account	amod
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whom	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 charm	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 charm	det
14	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 lands	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lands	det
17	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 charm	nmod
18	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lands	acl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 charm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the charm	upon the lands	tree rules
3	cast	participle		the lands not said here		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	account		the bishop			nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By the bishop himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 bishop	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bishop	det
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 bishop	nmod

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

Option 2

By the bishop himself, in his own household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 bishop	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bishop	det
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 bishop	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 household	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 household	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 household	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 household	amod
9	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bishop	conj

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

Option 3

By a jealous old witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 witch	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 witch	det
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By a wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 wizard	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wizard	det
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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