Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Does the little Toad want to stay down the well?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little Toad · What happens: want, stay down · To what, where: well

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Toad	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Toad	amod
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 stay	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	the little Toad						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay down not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little Toad not said here	the well					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme well=Location

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

Option 1

Yeah, she wants to get out of the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 well	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the well					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she wants to escape the well and go to see the sun and the fields

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 escape	mark
6	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 escape	obj
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 escape	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 go	cc
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 escape	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fields	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fields	det
17	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wants	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the	well property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme the=Initial_Location
3	go	infinitive	she not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	she not said here	the sun		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she is happy at the bottom and does not wish to move anywhere near the top ever

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	cop
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happy	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wish	cc
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wish	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 wish	advmod
12	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 move	mark
14	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wish	xcomp
15	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 move	advmod
16	near	near	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 move	obl
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	the bottom		happy property	tree rules
2	not wish	present · do-support	she not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the top	ever	anywhere property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme near top=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she wants to see the top of the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the top of the well					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus

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