Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is t…

So the sick King wanted his sons to die, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sick King · What happens: want, die · To what, where: sons

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 116 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Faithful John, part 19: John is turned to stone, then brought back to life with blood; three princes set out for the water of life» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 King	amod
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sons	nmod:poss
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sons	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the sick King	King's sons					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	the sick King not said here	King's sons not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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

Nah, he sent them to fetch the crown from the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crown	det
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fetch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	he	them = they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	fetch	to-infinitive	he not said here	the crown				from the old man	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from man=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he didn't want them to go, he said it was dangerous

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dangerous	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dangerous	cop
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he	them = they		tree rules
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	past	it		dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he sent them off to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 sent	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 die	mark
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past	he	them = they					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted them dead

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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp

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

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