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title: How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest? — Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63:… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest? Exam question 4 of lesson 1338 «Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur's boon, rides off with Kai and six others, and meets Custennin's wife, who hides a youth in a chest» of the books course of Mova's primary 
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# Exam question 4 · Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur'…

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How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many persons, Arthur · **What happens:** select, accompany, quest · **To what, where:** Kilweh, quest

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1338 «Mabinogion, Kilweh and Olwen, part 63: Kilweh wins Arthur's boon, rides off with Kai and six others, and meets Custennin's wife, who hides a youth in a chest» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1338-pg3454-part63/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1338-pg3454-part63:e4:1
# text = How many persons did Arthur select to accompany Kilweh upon his quest?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | past · do-support | many persons |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | many persons *not said here* | Kilweh |  | Arthur's quest |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kilweh=Theme upon quest=Destination |
| 3 | **quest** |  | Arthur |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1338-pg3454-part63:e4:o1:1
# text = five
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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seven men and their hounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1338-pg3454-part63:e4:o2:1
# text = seven men and their hounds
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1338-pg3454-part63:e4:o3:1
# text = two
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1338-pg3454-part63:e4:o4:1
# text = one
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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