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title: what's Gessler's whole deal, fam? — Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's Gessler's whole deal, fam? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 6 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

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what's Gessler's whole deal, fam?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gessler · **What happens:** be, deal

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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/348-pg18442-part8/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t6:1
# text = what's Gessler's whole deal, fam?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	Gessler	Gessler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** |  | Gessler |  |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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a proper tyrant who made folk bow to his cap in the square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t6:o1:1
# text = a proper tyrant who made folk bow to his cap in the square
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a proper tyrant | folk bow |  | the square |  | to his cap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a soldier who guarded the square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t6:o2:1
# text = a soldier who guarded the square
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past | a soldier | the square |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent square=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cruel tyrant who taxed everyone and made folk bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t6:o3:1
# text = a cruel tyrant who taxed everyone and made folk bow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	taxed	tax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tax** | past | a cruel tyrant |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past | a cruel tyrant | folk bow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a proper tyrant who made folk bow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:348-pg18442-part8:t6:o4:1
# text = a proper tyrant who made folk bow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a proper tyrant | folk bow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Product |

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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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