Test 13 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

Dunno who'd be daft enough, but what did the herdsman warn about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dunno, herdsman · What happens: be, warn

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 daft	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 daft	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 daft	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 daft	cop
5	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 daft	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warn	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 warn	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 warn	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warn	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 herdsman	det
12	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 warn	nsubj
13	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 daft	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	13 warn	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 daft	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Dunno					daft, enough property	tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	the herdsman						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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

No one lived to tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lived	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	no one						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	no one not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody came back alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Nobody					alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nobody came back alive, and the giant killed all who came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 killed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 killed	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 killed	nsubj
9	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 killed	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 all	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Nobody		alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past	the giant	all		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
3	come	past				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nobody who went there ever came back alive to tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 came	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Nobody	acl:relcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tell	mark
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 alive	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past		there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	Nobody		ever	alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2000-pg7885-part19/t13/