Test 9 · ★ · Mabinogion, Manawyddan son of Llyr, part 58: Manawyddan ca…

Bruv, why did he say no to all that cash?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: say · To what, where: no, cash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 say	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 cash	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cash	det
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 cash	det
11	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Bruv	no	all cash			Bruv vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to cash=Recipient

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

Wanted his mate back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wanted	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Wanted	advmod

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

Option 2

He just wanted the spell gone for good, innit

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 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spell	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the spell					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spell=Theme
2	go	participle		the spell not said here				for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wanted the spell gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wanted	obj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spell	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past		the spell					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spell=Theme
2	go	participle		the spell not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cos he wanted the spell gone and his lands back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spell	det
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spell	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lands	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lands	nmod:poss
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos	the spell					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot spell=Theme
2	go	participle		the spell 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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