Test 7 · ★ · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Real talk, why did Ring want to peek in that parlour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: want, peek

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	compound
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 peek	mark
9	peek	peek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 parlour	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 parlour	det
12	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peek	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	peek not said to happen	to-infinitive						in that parlour	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in parlour=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

he wanted to see inside

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 see	advmod

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

Option 2

he thought it held a secret treasure of gold

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 treasure	det
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 treasure	amod
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 treasure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hold	past	it	a secret treasure of gold	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
3	treasure			gold	nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he thought there was loot

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	past	loot			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

he heard someone crying

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 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 heard	obj
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 someone	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	someone					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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