Exam question 4 · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

Which of Olwen's features was described as whiter than the foam of the wave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Olwen · What happens: describe, feature

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 described	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 features	case
3	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 features	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Olwen	case
5	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 described	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 described	aux:pass
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 whiter	case
9	whiter	white	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 described	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 foam	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 foam	det
12	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whiter	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 wave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wave	det
15	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 foam	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past · passive						of Olwen's features; white property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: which=Theme
2	feature		Olwen						nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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

Her voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 voice	nmod:poss
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hands	nmod:poss
2	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	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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