Test 5 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stare, bird · What happens: be, stare

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stare	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 better	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 better	cop
6	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 better	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Olwen	case
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 sick	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 better	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which bird's stare					good property	tree rules
2	stare		which bird						nom stare «act intransitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

A falcon's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 falcon	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 falcon	case

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

Option 2

An eagle's

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	's	's	PART	_	2 eagle	case

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

Option 3

The stare of a hunting falcon at dusk on the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stare	det
2	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 falcon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 falcon	det
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falcon	compound
6	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stare	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dusk	case
8	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 falcon	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 moor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moor	det
11	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stare	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare		a hunting falcon at dusk			the moor			nom stare «act intransitive»: of=agent on=place

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A golden eagle's stare from the high cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagle	amod
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stare	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 eagle	case
5	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 cliffs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliffs	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cliffs	amod
9	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stare	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare		a golden eagle			the high cliffs			nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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