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

Innit, what did the ousel reckon about that anvil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit, ousel · What happens: do, reckon

This is test 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. 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ousel	det
6	ousel	ousel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 anvil	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 anvil	det
10	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Innit						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the ousel					about that anvil	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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

Chipped to a thumb-sized lump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chipped	chip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	7 lump	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lump	det
4	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sized	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thumb	punct
6	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lump	amod
7	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chip	participle						to a sized lump result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to lump=Result
2	size	participle							tree rules

Option 2

Pecked away at it for seven years until nothing but a nut-sized sliver remained

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Pecked	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pecked	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pecked	obl
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Pecked	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sliver	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sliver	det
12	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sized	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 nut	punct
14	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sliver	amod
15	sliver	sliver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	conj
16	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sliver	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	peck away	participle		until nothing; year	at it; away property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
2	size	participle				tree rules
3	remain	participle	a sized sliver not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pecked and pecked until only a tiny bit of iron was left on the block

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pecked	cc
3	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pecked	conj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 left	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 bit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 iron	case
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pecked	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 block	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 block	det
15	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	peck	participle			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	peck	participle			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past · passive	a tiny bit of iron	the block	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on block=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pecked down to a nut-sized bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Pecked	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	8 bit	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
5	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sized	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 nut	punct
7	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pecked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck down	participle						to a sized bit result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to bit=Result
2	size	participle							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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