Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

wait the naturalist wanted to bottle the toad, lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, naturalist · What happens: wait, want · To what, where: bottle

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 naturalist	det
3	naturalist	naturalist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bottle	mark
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toad	det
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	want	past	the naturalist	bottle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme toad=Attribute

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wanted to pickle it in spirits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pickle	mark
6	pickle	pickle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pickle	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spirits	case
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pickle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pickle not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it				in spirits	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in spirit=Instrument

Option 2

Nah, he wanted to sell her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he wanted to pickle it in spirits and show it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pickle	mark
6	pickle	pickle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pickle	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spirits	case
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pickle	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 show	cc
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pickle	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 show	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pickle not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	in spirits	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient in spirit=Instrument
3	show off	infinitive	he not said here	it		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted to jar her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 jar	mark
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jar	nmod:unmarked
8	up	up	ADP	_	4 wanted	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want up	past	he	jar her					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jar=Theme

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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