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title: What did Guilbert wanna do to Burchard, like, seriously? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did Guilbert wanna do to Burchard, like, seriously? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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What did Guilbert wanna do to Burchard, like, seriously?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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/1568-pg540-part65/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t12:1
# text = What did Guilbert wanna do to Burchard, like, seriously?
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	Guilbert	Guilbert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	wanna	wanna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	dep	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | Guilbert | Burchard |  |  |  | seriously *property* | 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 {#o1}

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burn his whole castle down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t12:o1:1
# text = burn his whole castle down
1	burn	burn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | imperative | you *not said here* | his whole castle |  |  |  | down *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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split his skull with an axe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t12:o2:1
# text = split his skull with an axe
1	split	split	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **split** | imperative | you *not said here* | his skull |  |  |  | with a axe | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent skull=Patient with axe=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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chase him out of the village with dogs and a long whip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t12:o3:1
# text = chase him out of the village with dogs and a long whip
1	chase	chase	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the village with dogs and a long whip |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out village=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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tie him up and drag him through the muddy streets of Quesnoy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t12:o4:1
# text = tie him up and drag him through the muddy streets of Quesnoy
1	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drag	drag	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Quesnoy	Quesnoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **drag** | infinitive | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | the muddy streets of Quesnoy |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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