Test 6 · ★ · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

That scholar, was he some nerdy singer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scholar · What happens: be · To what, where: nerdy singer

This is test 6 · ★ 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 scholar	det
2	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 singer	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 scholar	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 singer	cop
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 singer	nsubj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 singer	det
7	nerdy	nerdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 singer	amod
8	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 singer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that scholar	some nerdy singer					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

Yeah, a travelling singer from England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 singer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 singer	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 singer	det
4	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 singer	amod
5	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 singer	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he was a proper scholar from the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 scholar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scholar	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scholar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scholar	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scholar	amod
7	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 south	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 south	det
10	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scholar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a proper scholar		the south			tree rules

Option 3

Nah, from Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 Ireland	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ireland	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, from England

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 England	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 England	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	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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