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

Oi, how long could Kay hold his breath under water, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: hold · To what, where: breath, water

This is test 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. 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hold	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Oi	advmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breath	nmod:poss
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	could	Oi	Kay's breath		water and bruv			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent breath=Theme under water=Location

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

Seven hours and a long day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 day	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hours	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nine nights and nine days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 days	cc
4	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nights	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nine days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Three nights and three days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 nights	nummod
2	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 days	cc
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nights	conj

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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