Test 1 · ★ · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

Oi, bruv, what did the shoemakers wanna do to him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, shoemakers · What happens: do · To what, where: shoemakers, him

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1333 «Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan catches a mouse that eats his wheat, and a bishop reveals the mice are his enemy's wife» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Oi	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoemakers	det
8	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	obj
9	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 shoemakers	flat:foreign
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shoemakers	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Oi and bruv	the shoemakers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Eventuality
2	do	infinitive	the shoemakers not said here		him = he				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Chuck him in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chuck	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	imperative	you not said here	him = he		the river			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in river=Destination

Option 2

Kill him, they was well angry and skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kill	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 angry	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 angry	advmod
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kill	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 skint	cc
9	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 angry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	past	they		angry, well property	tree rules
3	be		they not said here			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They wanted to kill him cos they were proper furious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 kill	mark
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 furious	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 furious	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 furious	cop
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 furious	advmod
10	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	They			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past	they		furious, properly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kill him, proper angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kill	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kill	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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