Test 12 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

W or L, why did Mark want Vassili?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: W · What happens: want · To what, where: Vassili

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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	W	w	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 L	cc
3	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 W	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 want	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
7	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 want	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	W or L	Vassili					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot vassili=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

to be his clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fight	mark
2	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive							vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

to be his guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to be his overseer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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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