Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…

no way, did the mice actually want to talk to him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way, mice · What happens: do, want, talk · To what, where: way

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the ring» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
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 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 want	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 want	advmod
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	no way			tree rules
2	want	present	the mice		actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mice not said here	way		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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 sent a single scout

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scout	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 scout	amod
5	scout	scout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	They	a single scout					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scout=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They sent a team of bravest

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 team	det
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bravest	case
6	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 team	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	They	a team of bravest					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they sent their queen's best messenger to speak with him at dawn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 queen	nmod:poss
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 messenger	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 queen	case
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 messenger	amod
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 speak	mark
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	they	their queen's best messenger					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here				dawn	with him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

Option 4

They sent a team of bravest mice to meet him and ask him questions

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 team	det
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 mice	case
6	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 mice	amod
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 team	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 meet	mark
9	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 meet	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 meet	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	obj
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	send	past	They	a team of bravest mice		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Theme
2	meet	to-infinitive	They not said here	him = he		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	They not said here	questions	him = he	tree rules

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