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title: Mad, what sprang up wherever Olwen trod? — Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mad, what sprang up wherever Olwen trod? Test 7 · ★ 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 question 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, part 19: Kay's wonders, the…

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Mad, what sprang up wherever Olwen trod?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** spring up · **To what, where:** Olwen trod

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t7:1
# text = Mad, what sprang up wherever Olwen trod?
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trod	trod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | past |  | Olwen trod |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Roses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t7:o1:1
# text = Roses
1	Roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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White trefoils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t7:o2:1
# text = White trefoils
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trefoils	trefoil	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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White trefoils and bright blue violets in the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t7:o3:1
# text = White trefoils and bright blue violets in the grass
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trefoils	trefoil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lilies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2000-pg7885-part19:t7:o4:1
# text = Lilies
1	Lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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