Test 5 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

So was the earl's lassie a love match or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 match	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 So	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earl	det
4	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lassie	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 earl	case
6	lassie	lassie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 match	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 match	det
8	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 match	compound
9	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 match	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 match	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						so property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Aye, the queen wanted him wed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	obj
7	wed	wed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the queen	him = he					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme wed=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the queen only wanted him sorted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the queen	him = he					tree rules
2	sort not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, the queen only wanted him sorted out for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 sorted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sorted	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 queen	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 sorted	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sorted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the queen not said here	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	sort out	participle	the queen					for good	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, the king only wanted him gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the king	him = he					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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