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title: Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick? — Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2000 «Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the knights reach Olwen, and her angry father throws three poisoned darts» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

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Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** stare, bird · **What happens:** be, stare

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2000 «Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the knights reach Olwen, and her angry father throws three poisoned darts» 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/2000-pg7885-part19/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t5:1
# text = Which bird's stare was Olwen's better than, sick?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which bird's stare |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stare** |  | which bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom stare «act 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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A falcon's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t5:o1:1
# text = A falcon's
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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An eagle's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t5:o2:1
# text = An eagle's
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The stare of a hunting falcon at dusk on the moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t5:o3:1
# text = The stare of a hunting falcon at dusk on the moor
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** |  | a hunting falcon at dusk |  |  | the moor |  |  | nom stare «act intransitive»: of=agent on=place |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A golden eagle's stare from the high cliffs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t5:o4:1
# text = A golden eagle's stare from the high cliffs
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	stare	stare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** |  | a golden eagle |  |  | the high cliffs |  |  | nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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