Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

the oxen wanted to get the butchers, bare sus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oxen · What happens: want, get · To what, where: butchers

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oxen	det
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 butchers	det
7	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sus	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sus	amod
10	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 butchers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the oxen						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the oxen not said here	the butchers and bare sus					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer butcher=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they wanted to put them to death

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 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	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	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	them = they				to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

Option 2

Nah, they just wanted to chase them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chase	mark
7	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chase	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 chase	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	chase off not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, they wanted to put the butchers to death for their cruelty

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 put	mark
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butchers	det
8	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 cruelty	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cruelty	nmod:poss
13	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	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	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	the butchers				to death; for butchers's cruelty	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent butcher=Goal

Option 4

Nah, the old ox said they should spare the butchers and let them go home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ox	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ox	amod
5	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spare	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 spare	aux
9	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 butchers	det
11	butchers	butcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spare	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spare	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old ox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spare	should	they	the butchers		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent butcher=Asset
3	let	infinitive	they not said here	butchers = butcher		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	butchers = butcher not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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