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title: Like, did the monster want money or summat? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, did the monster want money or summat? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1327 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him win Luned back from the giant and the captors» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him…

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Like, did the monster want money or summat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** money

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1327 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him win Luned back from the giant and the captors» 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/1327-pg3454-part52/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1327-pg3454-part52:t8:1
# text = Like, did the monster want money or summat?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	summat	summat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the monster | money or summat |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |

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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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He wanted the earl's daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1327-pg3454-part52:t8:o1:1
# text = He wanted the earl's daughter
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He wanted the earl's gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1327-pg3454-part52:t8:o2:1
# text = He wanted the earl's gold
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, he wanted the earl's daughter and his whole castle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1327-pg3454-part52:t8:o3:1
# text = No, he wanted the earl's daughter and his whole castle
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He wanted the earl's daughter as his bride

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1327-pg3454-part52:t8:o4:1
# text = He wanted the earl's daughter as his bride
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | He | the earl's daughter |  |  |  | as his bride | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme as bride=Attribute |

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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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