Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him…

Like, did the monster want money or summat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: monster · What happens: do, want · To what, where: money

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1327 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him win Luned back from the giant and the captors» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monster	det
5	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 summat	cc
9	summat	summat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	want	present	the monster	money or summat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=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 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted the earl's daughter

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 earl	det
4	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 earl	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the earl's daughter					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted the earl's gold

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 earl	det
4	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gold	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 earl	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

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

Option 3

No, he wanted the earl's daughter and his whole castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earl	det
6	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 earl	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 castle	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 castle	nmod:poss
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 castle	amod
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	conj

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

Option 4

He wanted the earl's daughter as his bride

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 earl	det
4	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 earl	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 bride	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bride	nmod:poss
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the earl's daughter				as his bride	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme as bride=Attribute

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