Exam question 3 · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…

Upon the death of Yspaddaden Penkawr, by whose hand was his head severed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hand, Yspaddaden · What happens: be, sever, die

This is exam question 3 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 death	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 death	det
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 severed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Yspaddaden	case
5	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 death	nmod
6	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Yspaddaden	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 head	punct
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 head	case
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 head	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 severed	compound
14	severed	sever	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 severed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Yspaddaden's head's hand	by Yspaddaden's head	tree rules
2	sever	participle		upon the death of Yspaddaden	vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	die		Yspaddaden		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Bedwyr, the son of Bedrawd, in a single blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bedwyr	Bedwyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bedwyr	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Bedrawd	case
6	Bedrawd	Bedrawd	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blow	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 blow	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 blow	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blow	amod
11	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bedwyr	appos

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Goreu, son of Custennin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goreu	Goreu	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Goreu	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Custennin	case
5	Custennin	Custennin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod

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

Option 3

Kai, the steward, by way of the scabbard trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 steward	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 steward	det
4	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kai	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 way	case
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 steward	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 trick	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trick	det
10	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 trick	compound
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod

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

Option 4

Eliwlod, son of Erbin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eliwlod	Eliwlod	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eliwlod	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Erbin	case
5	Erbin	Erbin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod

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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