Exam question 4 · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…
Of what material was the scabbard that Kai proposed to renew, according to the text?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, Kai · What happens: be, propose, renew, accord · To what, where: scabbard
This is exam question 4 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scabbard | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scabbard | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scabbard | det |
| 6 | scabbard | scabbard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 proposed | obj |
| 8 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 proposed | nsubj |
| 9 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scabbard | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 renew | mark |
| 11 | renew | renew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 proposed | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 text | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 text | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 text | det |
| 16 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 renew | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | material | the scabbard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | propose | past | Kai | the scabbard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | renew | to-infinitive | Kai not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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
Its brass edges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 edges | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 edges | compound |
| 3 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The soft wooden sides, bound with leather strips and bronze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sides | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sides | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sides | amod |
| 4 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bound | punct |
| 6 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sides | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 strips | case |
| 8 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strips | compound |
| 9 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bound | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bronze | cc |
| 11 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strips | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | participle | the soft wooden sides not said here | with leather strips and bronze | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with strip=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Its thick leather covering and iron tip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 covering | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 covering | amod |
| 3 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covering | compound |
| 4 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tip | cc |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tip | compound |
| 7 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covering | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Its wooden sides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sides | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sides | amod |
| 3 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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