Test 9 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…

Honestly, what did they sneak under the walls on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: sneak on · To what, where: walls

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	6 sneak	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sneak	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sneak	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sneak	nsubj
6	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sneak	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	6 sneak	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sneak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak on	past · do-support	they			the walls		honestly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent what=Theme under wall=Trajectory

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

Riding on the strong back of the salmon through the shallow sluice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 back	amod
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 salmon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salmon	det
8	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 sluice	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sluice	det
11	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sluice	amod
12	sluice	sluice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund				the strong back of the salmon		through the shallow sluice	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through sluice=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Along the bank walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Along	along	ADP	_	4 walls	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
3	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walls	compound
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

On the otter's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 otter	det
3	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 otter	case
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The salmon's shoulders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salmon	det
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoulders	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 salmon	case
4	shoulders	shoulder	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1340-pg3454-part65/t9/