Exam question 1 · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…

By what means did Kai and Gwrhyr convey themselves beneath the walls of the prison?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: mean, convey · To what, where: Kai

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1340 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, and the boar Trwyth chased» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 convey	aux
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 convey	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Gwrhyr	cc
7	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kai	conj
8	convey	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 convey	obj
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 convey	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 prison	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prison	det
15	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	convey	past · do-support	Kai and Gwrhyr	Kai				beneath the walls of the prison	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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

On a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 boat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the shoulders of the salmon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 shoulders	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shoulders	det
3	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 salmon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoulders	nmod

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

Option 3

Upon the back of a great otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 back	det
3	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 otter	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 otter	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 otter	amod
7	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	nmod

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

Option 4

By means of a cask on the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 means	case
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cask	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cask	det
5	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cask	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						of a cask on the water	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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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