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title: was owen a hero or a nobody back then — Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain,… · tree and pragmatics
description: was owen a hero or a nobody back then Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1326 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is healed by a widowed countess and rides out to fight the earl who wants her lands» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 10 · ★ · Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is hea…

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was owen a hero or a nobody back then

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** owen

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1326 «Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain, part 51: Owen is healed by a widowed countess and rides out to fight the earl who wants her lands» 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/1326-pg3454-part51/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1326-pg3454-part51:t10:1
# text = was owen a hero or a nobody back then
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	owen	owen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | owen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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a proper knight who stayed lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1326-pg3454-part51:t10:o1:1
# text = a proper knight who stayed lost
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | a proper knight |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | a proper knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a proper knight who got lost and then came back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1326-pg3454-part51:t10:o2:1
# text = a proper knight who got lost and then came back
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | a proper knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | a proper knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come back** | past | a proper knight |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a proper hero

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1326-pg3454-part51:t10:o3:1
# text = a proper hero
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a knight who never came back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1326-pg3454-part51:t10:o4:1
# text = a knight who never came back
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come back** | past | a knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**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.

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