Test 11 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur'…
Lol, why'd the shepherd not get the ring on his finger, bruv?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: not get · To what, where: ring, finger
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 get | advmod |
| 4 | 'd | 'd | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 finger | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 finger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruv | punct |
| 15 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | infinitive | the shepherd | the ring and bruv | shepherd's finger | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Source |
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
it was too small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 small | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 small | advmod |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | small property | tree rules |
Option 2
it was too tight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tight | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 tight | advmod |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | it | tight property | tree rules |
Option 3
too big
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
it was lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lost | aux:pass |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | it | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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