Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…

Yo, what was his excuse for going in there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: excuse · What happens: be, go in · To what, where: excuse

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 excuse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 excuse	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 excuse	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 excuse	nmod:poss
6	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 excuse	acl
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 going	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 excuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		his excuse					tree rules
2	go in	gerund	his excuse not said here			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Wanting to see her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wanting	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

He said he was really just wanting to serve her, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanting	aux
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 wanting	advmod
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 wanting	advmod
7	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 serve	mark
9	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanting	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 serve	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past · progressive	he		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	serve not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Wanting to serve her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 serve	mark
3	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wanting	xcomp
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 serve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	serve not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

Option 4

Honestly just wanting to serve her, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 wanting	advmod
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanting	advmod
3	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 serve	mark
5	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanting	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 serve	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund		no cap				honestly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	serve not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here	her = she					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute

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