Test 4 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way…
Kai said he was the best sword-polisher in the whole world, dead serious?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: say, be · To what, where: best sword polisher, whole world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1339 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way past the gate to polish a giant's sword» 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 polisher | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 polisher | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 polisher | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 polisher | amod |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 polisher | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sword | punct |
| 9 | polisher | polisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 polisher | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 serious | punct |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 serious | amod |
| 16 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 polisher | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Kai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kai | the best sword polisher | the whole world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | Kai not said here | 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
yeah, he reckoned he was the best sword-polisher out of everyone in the whole wide world
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 polisher | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 polisher | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 polisher | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 polisher | amod |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 polisher | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sword | punct |
| 11 | polisher | polisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckoned | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 everyone | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 everyone | case |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 polisher | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 everyone | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | the best sword polisher | everyone | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he said he was a good one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 one | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a good one | tree rules |
Option 3
yeah, he said he was the top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 top | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 top | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | the top | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he reckoned he was the best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckoned | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckoned | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 best | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 reckoned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | good property | tree rules |
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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