Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Kilhuch and Olwen: Mabon is rescued, t…

Ngl, what did his mum make him choose, cake and hen or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, mum · What happens: do, make, choose · To what, where: Ngl, cake

This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cake	punct
11	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choose	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hen	cc
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cake	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cake	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Ngl's mum	Ngl	tree rules
3	choose	infinitive	Ngl not said here	cake and hen	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

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

Half the cake and hen with blessing, or the lot with curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 cake	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hen	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hen	cc
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 blessing	case
7	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hen	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 lot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hen	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 curse	case
13	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lot	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The whole cake with blessing, or half with curse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cake	amod
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 blessing	case
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cake	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 half	cc
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 cake	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 curse	case
10	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 half	nmod

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

Option 3

The cake, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cake	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the cake						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Half the bread with a curse, or all of it blessed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 bread	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 curse	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 curse	det
6	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 blessed	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 blessed	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 blessed	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
12	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	conj

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

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