Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

Did the thieves want to whack the cock for their scran?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: want, whack · To what, where: cock

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thieves	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thieves	det
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 whack	mark
6	whack	whack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whack	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 scran	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 scran	nmod:poss
11	scran	scran	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whack	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the thieves						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	whack not said to happen	to-infinitive	the thieves not said here	the cock				for thieves's scran	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient

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, they wanted to wring his neck and cook him up for their supper that night

The tree, 16 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	to	to	PART	_	6 wring	mark
6	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wring	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cook	cc
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wring	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cook	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 cook	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 supper	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 supper	nmod:poss
15	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	obl
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they		night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	wring not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	his neck			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
3	cook up	infinitive	they not said here	him = he		for their supper	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Product for supper=Beneficiary

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

Yeah, they wanted to wring his neck for supper

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	to	to	PART	_	6 wring	mark
6	wring	wring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wring	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 supper	case
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wring	obl

#	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	wring not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	his neck				for supper	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient

Option 3

Nah, they wanted to keep him as a pet and teach him to sing for them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 pet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pet	det
10	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 teach	cc
12	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 teach	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sing	mark
15	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 teach	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	they				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he		as a pet	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	teach speech: other	present	they not said here		pet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	they not said here			for them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient

Option 4

Yeah, they wanted to kick him out

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	to	to	PART	_	6 kick	mark
6	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kick	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 kick	compound:prt

#	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	kick out not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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