--- title: What did the wife reckon the king was, lads? — Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the wife reckon the king was, lads? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1286-pg3454-part11/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1286-pg3454-part11/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a… What did the wife reckon the king was, lads? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** king This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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/1286-pg3454-part11/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t12:1 # text = What did the wife reckon the king was, lads? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 reckon reckon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the wife | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the king and lads | | | | | tree rules | 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} Too good-natured ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t12:o1:1 # text = Too good-natured 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 natured nature VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nature** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Mean ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t12:o2:1 # text = Mean 1 Mean mean VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Far too good-natured for his own good ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t12:o3:1 # text = Far too good-natured for his own good 1 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 2 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 natured nature VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nature** | participle | | | | | | for his own; far, good *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Too foolish ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1286-pg3454-part11:t12:o4:1 # text = Too foolish 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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