Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, t…

In what manner did Kaw of North Britain perform the shaving of Yspathaden Penkawr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kaw · What happens: do, perform, shave · To what, where: manner, shaving, Yspathaden

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2001 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, the comb is won, and Kilhuch wins Olwen» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Kaw	Kaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 perform	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Britain	compound
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Kaw	nmod
9	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shaving	det
11	shaving	shaving	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perform	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Yspathaden	case
13	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shaving	nmod
14	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Yspathaden	flat
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	perform	present	Kaw of North Britain	the shaving of Yspathaden		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaving=Theme
3	shave			Yspathaden		nom shaving «act transitive»: of=patient

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

He removed skin, flesh, and all, cutting right down through to the bone and beyond

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 removed	nsubj
2	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flesh	punct
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bone	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 bone	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cutting	punct
10	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 bone	csubj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 down	advmod
12	down	down	ADV	_	10 cutting	advmod
13	through	through	ADV	_	16 bone	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bone	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bone	det
16	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removed	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beyond	cc
18	beyond	beyond	ADV	_	16 bone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past	He	skin and flesh					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	cut	gerund						down property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He shaved with a sharp blade in one pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shaved	nsubj
2	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 blade	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blade	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blade	amod
6	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shaved	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pass	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pass	nummod
9	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shaved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	past	He			one pass		with a sharp blade	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blade=Instrument

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He removed skin and flesh to the bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 removed	nsubj
2	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flesh	cc
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 removed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past	He	skin and flesh		the bone			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent skin=Theme to bone=Destination

Option 4

He shaved the beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shaved	nsubj
2	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beard	det
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shaved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	past	He	the beard					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient

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