Exam question 2 · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

What was the principal property of Kay's lance, as recorded in the text?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, record · To what, where: principal property, text

This is exam question 2 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	5 property	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 property	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 property	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 property	amod
5	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 lance	case
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lance	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Kay	case
9	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 property	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 recorded	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 recorded	mark
12	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 property	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 text	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 text	det
15	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 recorded	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 property	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the principal property				of Kay's lance	tree rules
2	record	participle				the text			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=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

It cut deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADV	_	2 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	It					deep property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It was never blunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blunt	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blunt	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 blunt	advmod
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It					blunt property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It wounded as nine lances would

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wounded	nsubj
2	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 lances	case
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lances	nummod
5	lances	lance	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wounded	obl
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 wounded	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wound	past	It					as nine lances	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It struck with great force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 force	case
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 force	amod
5	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	It					with great force	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with force=Theme

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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