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title: Was the queen dead keen on getting Manus sorted for good? — More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the queen dead keen on getting Manus sorted for good? Test 2 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 2 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

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Was the queen dead keen on getting Manus sorted for good?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** queen, dead keen · **What happens:** be, get, sort · **To what, where:** dead keen, Manus

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This is test 2 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1159-pg3027-part25/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t2:1
# text = Was the queen dead keen on getting Manus sorted for good?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	Manus	Manus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	sorted	sort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the queen | dead keen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | gerund | dead keen *not said here* | Manus |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer manus=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sort** | past | dead keen |  |  |  |  | for good | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Aye, she wanted him done for

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t2:o1:1
# text = Aye, she wanted him done for
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, she wanted him done for once and for all by the stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t2:o2:1
# text = Aye, she wanted him done for once and for all by the stones
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she only wanted gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t2:o3:1
# text = Nah, she only wanted gold
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Aye, she wanted him done for and buried by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t2:o4:1
# text = Aye, she wanted him done for and buried by the sea
1	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	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 | **want** | past | she | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bury** | participle | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the sea | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by sea=Destination |

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**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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