Test 2 · ★ · Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost agai…

Bruv, were the parents well mental, dumping their kids twice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: parents · What happens: be, dump · To what, where: kids

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1468 «Perrault's Popular Tales, Little Thumb, part 55: lost again, the children reach the ogre's house» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mental	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mental	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mental	nsubj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 mental	advmod
7	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dumping	punct
9	dumping	dump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mental	advcl
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 dumping	obj
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 dumping	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the parents					Bruv vocative; mental, well property	tree rules
2	dump	gerund	the parents not said here		parents's kids			twice property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent kid=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they wanted them lost much farther away

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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 farther	advmod
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 lost	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 farther	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	them = they					tree rules
2	lose not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here					far property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, they wanted them gone for good

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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	them = they					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here					for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary

Option 3

Nah, they only left them for a day to teach them a lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 teach	mark
11	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 left	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 teach	iobj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lesson	det
14	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	they	them = they			day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	they not said here	a lesson	them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lesson=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, they wanted them lost much farther away in the woods

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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 farther	advmod
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 lost	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	them = they					tree rules
2	lose not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here			the woods		away property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in wood=Eventuality

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