Test 10 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

Nah, how many gran-gran types did Yspathaden want to ask?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many gran types · What happens: want, ask

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	11 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 types	amod
5	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gran	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 gran	punct
7	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 types	compound
8	types	type	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 want	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ask	mark
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	many gran types						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	many gran types not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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

Four great-grandmothers from the oldest families of the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 grandmothers	nummod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandmothers	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 great	punct
4	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 families	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 families	det
7	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 families	amod
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grandmothers	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 families	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Four great-grandmothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 grandmothers	nummod
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandmothers	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 great	punct
4	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Four ancient healers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 healers	nummod
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 healers	amod
3	healers	healer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Three wise old men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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