Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, N…

wait, did Deirdre actually want to marry the king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, want, marry · To what, where: Deirdre, king

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1995 «Celtic Tales, Deirdre, part 14: Connachar finds Deirdre, Naois takes her to Scotland, and Connachar invites them back to a feast» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
4	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 marry	mark
8	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marry	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	you not said here	Deirdre		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Eventuality
3	want	present	you not said here		actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the king		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

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

Nah, she made him wait a whole year and a day before she would agree to anything at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	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 made	obj
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	conj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 agree	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agree	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 agree	aux
16	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 anything	case
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 agree	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	him = he				tree rules
2	wait	infinitive	him = he not said here			year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	would	she		all		to anything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she got him to wait a year and a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	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 got	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wait	mark
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	him = he not said here				day; year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she made him promise to wait a whole year and a day before she'd even think about marrying him

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	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 made	obj
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 year	conj
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 think	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
17	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 think	advmod
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wait	advcl
20	about	about	SCONJ	_	21 marrying	mark
21	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 think	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 marrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make	past	she	him = he		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	would	she			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	marry	gerund	she not said here	him = he		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she tricked him into waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	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 tricked	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 waiting	case
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	she	him = he				into waiting result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into waiting=Result

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