Test 9 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

Ach, what was the queen up to with the foster bairns?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ach · What happens: be · To what, where: queen

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ach	Ach	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 queen	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 queen	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 queen	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ach	appos
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 queen	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	7 up	fixed
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 bairns	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bairns	det
11	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bairns	compound
12	bairns	bairn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 queen	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ach	the queen				with the foster bairns	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 · ✓ the right answer

She made them swear tae her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	She	them = they					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	them = they not said here					tae her = she	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She sent them tae the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	tae	tae	ADP	Foreign=Yes	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	She	them = they				tae the hill	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

She beat them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	She	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4

She made them fight her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	She	them = they					tree rules
2	fight	infinitive	them = they not said here	her = she					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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