Test 10 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

what did the witch want with Pinkel, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: do, want · To what, where: witch

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 witch	acl:relcl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Pinkel	case
7	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talk	amod
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Pinkel	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the witch				with Pinkel	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	want	present	the witch not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

wanted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wanted	obj

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

wanted him as a cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wanted	obj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 cook	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past		him = he				as a cook	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cook=Attribute

Option 3

to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 work	mark
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wanted him to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wanted	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past		him = he					tree rules
2	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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