Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to los…

fr, why did the parents want to ditch their kids?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents · What happens: want, ditch · To what, where: kids

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1467 «Fairy Tales, Little Thumb, part 1: the parents plan to lose their sons in the forest, and Little Thumb leaves a trail of white pebbles» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parents	det
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ditch	mark
9	ditch	ditch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 kids	nmod:poss
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ditch	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the parents						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ditch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the parents not said here	parents's kids					tree rules

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

They got bored and wanted a new family

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 family	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	want	past	They not said here	a new family					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot family=Theme

Option 2

Their kids had been stealing from the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kids	nmod:poss
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stealing	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stealing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stealing	aux
5	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stealing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · progressive	Their kids			the town			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were broke and had no food to share

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	3 broke	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	cop
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 share	mark
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 broke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	They	break property	tree rules
2	have	past	They not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	share	to-infinitive	They not said here		tree rules

Option 4

They wanted a bigger house with a garden

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They	a bigger house				with a garden	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme

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