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title: who gave Manus that magic chain, like? — West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief,… · tree and pragmatics
description: who gave Manus that magic chain, like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 12 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

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who gave Manus that magic chain, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Manus · **What happens:** give, magic · **To what, where:** Manus, chain

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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/1160-pg3027-part26/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t12:1
# text = who gave Manus that magic chain, like?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Manus	manus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	magic	magic	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | Manus |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manus=Theme |
| 2 | **magic** | present | Manus | chain |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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the armourer's wife who lived in the house by the shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t12:o1:1
# text = the armourer's wife who lived in the house by the shore
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	armourer	armourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the armourer's wife |  |  | the house |  | by the shore | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the armourer in his house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t12:o2:1
# text = the armourer in his house
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	armourer	armourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the old armourer in his big house on the hill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t12:o3:1
# text = the old armourer in his big house on the hill
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	armourer	armourer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the old king of Lochlann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t12:o4:1
# text = the old king of Lochlann
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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