Exam question 3 · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

By what means did Kilhwch wound Yspathaden Penkawr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kilhwch · What happens: mean, wound · To what, where: Yspathaden

This is exam question 3 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wound	obl
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wound	aux
5	Kilhwch	Kilhwch	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wound	nsubj
6	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wound	obj
8	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Yspathaden	flat
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	wound	past · do-support	Kilhwch	Yspathaden					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yspathaden=Experiencer

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 · ✓ the right answer

By hurling back the third dart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hurling	mark
2	hurling	hurl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 hurling	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dart	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 dart	amod
6	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl back	gerund		the third dart					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme

Option 2

By hurling back the third dart, which struck him in the eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 hurling	mark
2	hurling	hurl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 hurling	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dart	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 dart	amod
6	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurling	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 struck	nsubj
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dart	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 struck	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eye	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eye	det
13	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurl back	gerund		the third dart					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme
2	strike	past	the third dart	him = he		the eye			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument

Option 3

By throwing the second spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 throwing	mark
2	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spear	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 spear	amod
5	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 throwing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		the second spear					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme

Option 4

By catching the poisoned dart and hurling back the third dart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 catching	mark
2	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dart	det
4	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dart	amod
5	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 catching	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hurling	cc
7	hurling	hurl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 catching	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 hurling	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dart	det
10	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 dart	amod
11	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hurling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	gerund	the poisoned dart	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme
2	poison	participle		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hurl back	gerund	the third dart	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme

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