Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryde…

Bro, why did the saddlers wanna smoke them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, saddlers · What happens: do, wanna, smoke · To what, where: saddlers

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Bro	acl:relcl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 saddlers	det
6	saddlers	saddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wanna	nsubj
7	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanna	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smoke	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro		tree rules
2	wanna	present	the saddlers		tree rules
3	smoke	infinitive	the saddlers not said here	saddlers = saddler	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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

they hated them

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	them = they					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nobody bought other saddles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saddles	amod
4	saddles	saddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	nobody	other saddles					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme

Option 3

they wanted the gold back

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

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

Option 4

the saddles were too cheap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saddles	det
2	saddles	saddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheap	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheap	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cheap	advmod
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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