Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fatt…

Fr, what made the Bad One check on the kid so much?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: make · To what, where: Bad check

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1210 «Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fattened up for a feast» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 check	det
6	Bad	Bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 check	compound
7	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Bad	flat
8	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 kid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kid	det
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Fr	the Bad check				on the kid	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material check=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted him fat enough to eat

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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 fat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	him = he				fat property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He wanted the boy fat enough to eat at the feast tonight

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 feast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl
12	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the boy				enough, fat property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	He not said here			the feast	tonight		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was worried about the boy

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	3 worried	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worried	cop
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					about the boy; worried property	tree rules

Option 4

He wanted him fat to sell

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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sell	mark
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	him = he				fat property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	sell	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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