Test 3 · ★ · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

Wait, so what was nicking all his corn?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, nick · To what, where: corn

This is test 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. 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nicking	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 nicking	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nicking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nicking	aux
6	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 corn	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 corn	nmod:poss
9	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nicking	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nick	past · progressive		his corn					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument corn=Patient

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 whole load of cheeky field mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 load	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 load	amod
3	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 mice	case
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mice	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mice	compound
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 load	nmod

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

Option 2

Loads of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 birds	case
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod

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

Option 3

Loads of mice and some crows from the hedge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 mice	case
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crows	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 crows	det
6	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mice	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hedge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hedge	det
9	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Loads	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Loads of mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 mice	case
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod

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

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