Test 7 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

why did Antoine go to the forest anyway, was he sent?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Antoine · What happens: go, send · To what, where: forest, Antoine

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 go	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Antoine			the forest		anyway property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	send	past · passive		Antoine					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

Yeah his dad sent him for wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 wood	case
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	his dad	him = he				for wood	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Yeah his mum sent him for leaves, because the widow wanted them for the roof of her hut

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 widow	det
11	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 roof	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanted	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hut	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hut	nmod:poss
19	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 roof	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	his mum	him = he				for leaves	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	want	past	the widow	leaves = leaf				for the roof of widow's hut	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah his mum sent him for leaves, and he was supposed to be back before the rain started

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 supposed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 supposed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 supposed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 supposed	aux:pass
12	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 back	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 back	cop
15	back	back	ADV	_	12 supposed	advmod
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 started	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rain	det
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 started	nsubj
19	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 back	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	his mum	him = he	for leaves	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	suppose	past · passive		he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive			back property	tree rules
4	start	past	the rain			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah his mum sent him for leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sent	discourse
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	his mum	him = he				for leaves	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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