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title: Bruv, what did the ants give Gwythyr as thanks? — Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what did the ants give Gwythyr as thanks? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1340 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, and the boar Trwyth chased» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 12 · ★ · Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, a…

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Bruv, what did the ants give Gwythyr as thanks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ants · **What happens:** do, give · **To what, where:** Gwythyr

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1340 «Mabinogion, Culhwch and Olwen: Kai's trick, Mabon freed, and the boar Trwyth chased» 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/1340-pg3454-part65/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t12:1
# text = Bruv, what did the ants give Gwythyr as thanks?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	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	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	Gwythyr	Gwythyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bruv *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the ants | Gwythyr |  |  |  | as thanks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gwythyr=Theme |

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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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Grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t12:o1:1
# text = Grain
1	Grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nine coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t12:o2:1
# text = Nine coins
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nine sacks of barley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t12:o3:1
# text = Nine sacks of barley
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Nine bushels of flax seed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1340-pg3454-part65:t12:o4:1
# text = Nine bushels of flax seed
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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