Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: Joh…

Were the two blokes up to something dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: two blokes · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1006 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Silver Shilling, part 217: John buries his father and sets out into the 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blokes	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 blokes	nummod
4	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 blokes	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 blokes	nmod
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the two blokes to something						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, they were just praying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 praying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 praying	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 praying	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 praying	advmod
6	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past · progressive	they						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Yeah, they fancied robbing John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fancied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fancied	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fancied	nsubj
4	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	robbing	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fancied	xcomp
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 robbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	they						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	rob	gerund	they not said here	John					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Source

Option 3

Yeah, they wanted money

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they wanted to chuck the body out

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chuck	mark
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 chuck	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	chuck out not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	the body					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

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