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title: Ach, what was the queen up to with the foster bairns? — More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ach, what was the queen up to with the foster bairns? Test 9 · ★ 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 of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Manus, part 25: Manu…

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Ach, what was the queen up to with the foster bairns?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ach · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** queen

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t9:1
# text = Ach, what was the queen up to with the foster bairns?
1	Ach	Ach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	foster	foster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bairns	bairn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ach | the queen |  |  |  | with the foster bairns | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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She made them swear tae her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t9:o1:1
# text = She made them swear tae her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | She | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tae her *= she* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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She sent them tae the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t9:o2:1
# text = She sent them tae the hill
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	tae	tae	ADP	IN	Foreign=Yes	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | She | them *= they* |  |  |  | tae the hill | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She beat them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t9:o3:1
# text = She beat them
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | past | She | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She made them fight her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1159-pg3027-part25:t9:o4:1
# text = She made them fight her
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | She | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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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