Test 13 · ★ · Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy st…

wait, why did the king say the cask of pitch thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king · What happens: wait, say · To what, where: cask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1237 «Gutenberg 3282, The Sister of the Sun, part 38: the boy steals a golden hen, but keeps going back into the palace, and the fox rescues the princess from the giants» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cask	det
9	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 thing	case
11	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thing	compound
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cask	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the king	the cask of pitch thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cask=Topic

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

he was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

he was angry

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 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted to check if the story was true

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 check	mark
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 true	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 true	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 check	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	want	past	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	check not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the story	true property	tree rules

Option 4

he wanted the gold for himself

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 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

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

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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