Exam question 4 · Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur'…

How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many persons, Arthur · What happens: select, accompany, quest · To what, where: Kilweh, quest

This is exam question 4 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 persons	amod
3	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 select	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 select	aux
5	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 select	nsubj
6	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accompany	mark
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 select	xcomp
9	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 quest	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 quest	nmod:poss
12	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accompany	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	select	past · do-support	many persons			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	accompany	to-infinitive	many persons not said here	Kilweh	Arthur's quest	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kilweh=Theme upon quest=Destination
3	quest		Arthur			nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

seven men and their hounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 men	nummod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hounds	cc
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hounds	nmod:poss
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	conj

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

Option 3

two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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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