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title: sure look, who was Conn bawling over at the sea? — Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundre… · tree and pragmatics
description: sure look, who was Conn bawling over at the sea? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30:…

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sure look, who was Conn bawling over at the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sure look, Conn · **What happens:** be, bawl over · **To what, where:** Conn, sea

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1062 «Gods and Fighting Men, Conn the Hundred Fighter, part 30: Conn grieves for his queen and a stranger comes out of the sea» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1062-pg2892-part30/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t2:1
# text = sure look, who was Conn bawling over at the sea?
1	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | sure look | Conn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bawl over** *speech: other* | gerund | Conn *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  | over *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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His dead queen Eithne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t2:o1:1
# text = His dead queen Eithne
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Eithne	Eithne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The king's son Art, who had gone off to the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t2:o2:1
# text = The king's son Art, who had gone off to the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past · perfect | the king's son |  |  |  |  | to the sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His dead wife Eithne, the Norwegian queen he loved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t2:o3:1
# text = His dead wife Eithne, the Norwegian queen he loved
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Eithne	Eithne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Eithne | the Norwegian queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His dead wife Eithne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1062-pg2892-part30:t2:o4:1
# text = His dead wife Eithne
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Eithne	Eithne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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