Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…

Oi, why did Minnikin want food for five weeks, mate?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Oi	acl:relcl
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 weeks	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 weeks	nummod
10	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weeks	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	Minnikin	food			week		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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 · ← Mova's choice

Cos he had a huge sea trip ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trip	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trip	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trip	compound
7	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a huge sea trip				ahead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient

Option 2

Cos he had a long trip ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trip	amod
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a long trip				ahead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he had a massive voyage ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voyage	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voyage	amod
6	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a massive voyage				ahead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient

Option 4

Cos he had a massive voyage ahead across the cold sea, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voyage	det
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voyage	amod
6	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sea	amod
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	a massive voyage		the cold sea and mate		ahead property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Patient

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