Test 9 · ★ · Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats t…

Bro, what did he wish for, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: wish

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1511 «Norse Tales, Halvor and the Trolls, part 8: Halvor beats three trolls and wins back the princesses, then wishes himself home» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wish	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wish	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 wish	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 wish	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past · do-support	he					Bro vocative; exactly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

To be home or home here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 home	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 home	cop
3	home	home	ADV	_	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 home	cc
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 home	conj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 home	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				here		home property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To be home right now, in his mum and dad's cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	9 mum	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 mum	cop
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 be	advmod
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 mum	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mum	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 mum	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cottage	cc
11	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cottage	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 dad	case
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mum	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive					now	in his mum and dad's cottage	tree rules

Option 3

To be back at the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 back	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 back	cop
3	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive				the castle		back property	tree rules

Option 4

To be with his sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	5 sisters	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sisters	cop
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 sisters	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sisters	nmod:poss
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						with his sisters	tree rules

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