Exam question 1 · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

What did the visitors send to the herdsman's wife by way of him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: visitors · What happens: do, send · To what, where: wife

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2000 «Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the knights reach Olwen, and her angry father throws three poisoned darts» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 visitors	det
4	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	nsubj
5	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herdsman	det
8	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 herdsman	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 way	case
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	present	the visitors		the herdsman's wife			by way of him	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wife=Destination

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

An iron knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	compound
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A gold ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	compound
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A silver cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	compound
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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