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title: Mate, did Owen actually win the fight or what? — Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did Owen actually win the fight or what? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1325 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats the black knight and gets trapped in a drawbridge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 1 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats…

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Mate, did Owen actually win the fight or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, win · **To what, where:** Owen, fight

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1325 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 50: Owen beats the black knight and gets trapped in a drawbridge» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1325-pg3454-part50/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1325-pg3454-part50:t1:1
# text = Mate, did Owen actually win the fight or what?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | Owen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **win** | present | Mate *not said here* | the fight |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nah, he just missed and fell off his horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1325-pg3454-part50:t1:o1:1
# text = Nah, he just missed and fell off his horse
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall off** | past | he *not said here* | his horse |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient horse=Extent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he hit the shield and the knight fled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1325-pg3454-part50:t1:o2:1
# text = Yeah, he hit the shield and the knight fled
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | he | the shield |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shield=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **flee** | past | the knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull right down the middle of the fight

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1325-pg3454-part50:t1:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull right down the middle of the fight
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past | he | the helmet |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient |
| 2 | **split** | past | he *not said here* | his skull |  |  |  | down the middle of the fight | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1325-pg3454-part50:t1:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he whacked the helmet and split his skull
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past | he | the helmet |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient |
| 2 | **split** | past | he *not said here* | his skull |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient |

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