Test 8 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen, part 64: Kai talks his way…

so where's the knife supposed to be, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, suppose · To what, where: knife, fam

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 supposed	advmod
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 knife	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 knife	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 knife	det
5	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supposed	nsubj:pass
6	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 fam	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fam	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 supposed	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 supposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the knife	tree rules
2	suppose	participle · passive	the knife	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	is a	to-infinitive	fam	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

stuck in the meat on the great platter at the head of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 meat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meat	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stuck	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 platter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 platter	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 platter	amod
8	platter	platter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 platter	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hall	det
14	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	nmod

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

Option 2

on the high shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	4 shelf	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shelf	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shelf	amod
4	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

hidden in the wine barrel beside the giant's seat near the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 barrel	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 barrel	det
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barrel	compound
5	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hidden	obl
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 seat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 giant	case
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hidden	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the wine barrel		beside the giant's seat near the fire	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in barrel=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

stuck in the meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 meat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meat	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stuck	obl

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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