Test 12 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…
What's the deal with the sword the man was on about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1159 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manus is cheated of his share and is offered a sword» 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deal | det |
| 4 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sword | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sword | det |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deal | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 on | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 on | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 deal | compound |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 on | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 deal | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the deal | with the sword | tree rules |
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
Option 1
He'd forge Manus a blade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forge | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 forge | aux |
| 3 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forge | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blade | det |
| 6 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forge | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | would | He | a blade | Manus | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent manus=Beneficiary blade=Product |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He'd make Manus a sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | He | a sword | Manus | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset manus=Beneficiary sword=Product |
Option 3
He'd sell a sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sell | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sell | aux |
| 3 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | would | He | a sword | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
Option 4
He'd give Manus a shield
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shield | det |
| 6 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | He | a shield | Manus | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent manus=Recipient shield=Theme |
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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