Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…

Like, why didn't Desiree want the prince to see her change back?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Desiree, prince · What happens: not want, see, change back · To what, where: prince

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
6	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 change	nmod:poss
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 see	xcomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 change	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	Desiree	the prince	tree rules
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the prince not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	change back	infinitive	the prince not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

She wanted him to leave first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 leave	advmod

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

Option 2

She wanted their first meeting to take place somewhere far away from here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 meeting	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 meeting	amod
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
9	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 take	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 here	case
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	their first meeting					tree rules
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	their first meeting not said here	place				away, somewhere property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She feared he would be scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	cop
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	She						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	he					scared property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She wanted their first meeting to be elsewhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 meeting	nmod:poss
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 meeting	amod
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 elsewhere	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 elsewhere	cop
8	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	2 wanted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	their first meeting					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meeting=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	She not said here					elsewhere property	tree rules

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