Test 2 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

Was the queen dead keen on getting Manus sorted for good?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: queen, dead keen · What happens: be, get, sort · To what, where: dead keen, Manus

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keen	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keen	nsubj
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keen	amod
5	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorted	nsubj
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 getting	mark
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keen	acl
8	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 getting	obj
9	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sorted	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the queen	dead keen		tree rules
2	get	gerund	dead keen not said here	Manus		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manus=Stimulus
3	sort	past	dead keen		for good	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Aye, she wanted him done for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Aye, she wanted him done for once and for all by the stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 done	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stones	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	ADV	_	14 stones	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 stones	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stones	det
14	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, she only wanted gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	gold					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, she wanted him done for and buried by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 done	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 buried	cc
9	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 done	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he		tree rules
2	do not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bury	participle	him = he not said here		by the sea	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sea=Destination

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