Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna si…

deadass, did the old couple want him to stay?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deadass, old couple · What happens: do, want, stay · To what, where: deadass

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1017 «Andersen, Knud's wanderings, part 228: Knud sees Joanna sing at the opera, then sets out north over the mountains» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 couple	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stay	mark
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	deadass		tree rules
2	want	present	the old couple	deadass	tree rules
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	deadass not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

No, they wanted him to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	him = he					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they begged him to chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chill	mark
7	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	chill not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yeah, they begged him to stay the whole winter and rest longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winter	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rest	cc
12	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stay	conj
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 rest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	they	him = he			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here		winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rest	infinitive	they not said here			long property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they asked him to wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wait	mark
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	they		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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