Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the far…

Mad, what was that bishop business about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bishop business

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1295 «Fairy Book, Toueno-Boueno, part 20: the boy tricks the farmers and sends them to their deaths in the river, and a new tale, The Brown Bear of Norway, begins» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 business	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 business	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 business	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 business	mark
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 business	compound
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mad	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	7 business	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		bishop business					tree rules

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

they wanted him to become a saint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 become	mark
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 saint	det
7	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	him = he					tree rules
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	a saint					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

they wanted to make him a bishop so he'd lead the church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bishop	det
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 lead	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lead	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lead	aux
11	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 church	det
13	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lead	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	want	past	they			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	a bishop	him = he	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary bishop=Product
3	lead	would	he	the church		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they wanted to make him a bishop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bishop	det
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	a bishop	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary bishop=Product

Option 4

they planned to dress him in the robes of a bishop and parade him through town

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 planned	nsubj
2	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dress	mark
4	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 planned	xcomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dress	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 robes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robes	det
8	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dress	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bishop	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bishop	det
11	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 robes	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 parade	cc
13	parade	parade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 planned	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 parade	obj
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 town	case
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	plan	past	they			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dress not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he	the robes of a bishop	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	parade	present	they not said here	him = he	town	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme through town=Trajectory

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