Test 3 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ri…

bruh, why did the captain threaten to land his cats?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: captain · What happens: threaten, land · To what, where: cats

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1416 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring: the mice win back the ring, then lose it at sea» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 threaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 threaten	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 captain	det
6	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 land	mark
9	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cats	nmod:poss
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 land	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the captain						tree rules
2	land not said to happen	to-infinitive	the captain not said here		captain's cats				vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme cat=Destination

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

idk, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	idk	idk	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 idk	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 idk	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

cause the mice stole his cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mice	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cats	nmod:poss
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	infinitive							vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	steal	past	the cause mice	his cats					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

cause he wanted the ring back, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl

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

Option 4

he just wanted some cheese

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	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 cheese	det
5	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

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

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