Test 7 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

What was the King's whole thing with the army?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole thing · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 army	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 army	det
10	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the King's whole thing with the army						tree rules

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

He wanted to win battles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 win	mark
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 win	obj

#	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	win not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	battles					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted news from far off lands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	obl
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 lands	case
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted news from two hundred leagues off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 leagues	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 leagues	nummod
7	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	obl
8	off	off	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	news				from hundred leagues; off property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot news=Theme

Option 4

He wanted a battle won at some distance away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battle	det
4	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 battle	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	obl
9	away	away	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a battle				away property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battle=Theme
2	win	participle		a battle not said here				at some distance	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at distance=Eventuality

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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