Test 5 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

Did his mum and dad go mental about the one hand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: do, go

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	6 go	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dad	cc
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hand	det
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hand	nummod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mental	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	his mum and dad					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they went mental, wanting a daughter-in-law with two hands and a proper dowry

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanting	punct
7	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 law	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 law	nsubj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 law	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 law	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanting	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hands	nummod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wanting	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dowry	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dowry	det
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dowry	amod
20	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	gerund	they not said here	a law				with two hands and a proper dowry	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot law=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they wanted two hands and loads of dosh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hands	nummod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loads	cc
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dosh	case
10	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	two hands and loads of dosh					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they wanted two hands and loads of dosh, so they went mental at him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hands	nummod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loads	cc
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dosh	case
10	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loads	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
15	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	xcomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	two hands and loads of dosh					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme
2	go	past	hands = hand					at him = he; mental property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at he=Location

Option 4

Yeah, they wanted a posh wife, loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wife	det
6	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wife	amod
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loads	punct
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	a posh wife and loads					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme

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