Exam question 2 · Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur'…
To whom did the porter Glewlwyd state that entry to the palace was permitted?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Glewlwyd state · What happens: do, permit · To what, where: porter, entry
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1338 «Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur's boon, rides off with Kai and six others, and meets Custennin's wife, who hides a youth in a chest» 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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 porter | det |
| 5 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | Glewlwyd | Glewlwyd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 state | compound |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 permitted | mark |
| 9 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entry | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 permitted | aux:pass |
| 14 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 state | acl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the porter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | permit | past · passive | Glewlwyd state not said here | entry to the palace | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 king's son, a pedlar, or a travelling smith
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pedlar | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pedlar | det |
| 7 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smith | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 smith | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 smith | det |
| 11 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smith | compound |
| 12 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a king's son or a pedlar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 pedlar | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pedlar | det |
| 7 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a knight or a pilgrim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knight | det |
| 2 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 pilgrim | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pilgrim | det |
| 5 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
nobody but a king's son or a wandering pedlar with goods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 son | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nobody | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 pedlar | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pedlar | det |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pedlar | amod |
| 10 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 nobody | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 goods | case |
| 12 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 pedlar | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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