Test 12 · ★ · Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses…

Did Conn really want to send Art away, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Conn · What happens: want, send away · To what, where: Conn, Art

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1063 «Crock of Gold, The Hundred Fighter, part 31: Conn chooses Becuma, Art is banished, and Ireland starves» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Conn	aux
2	Conn	Conn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 send	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 send	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	vocative
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		Conn					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	send away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Conn not said here	Art				mate vocative; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=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, he laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he was glad to see him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 glad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		glad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he did it with a heavy heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 heart	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heart	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heart	amod
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it				with a heavy heart	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Yeah, he did it with no regret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 regret	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 regret	det
8	regret	regret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it				with no regret	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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