Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits th…

so the mom wanted Stan gone, but how?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1770 «Fairy Tales, Stan and the Dragon, part 21: Stan outwits the dragon and his mother» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mom	det
3	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Stan	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 how	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 how	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wanted	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the mom	Stan					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stan=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

she wanted the dragon to murder him in his sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 murder	mark
6	murder	murder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 murder	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sleep	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nmod:poss
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 murder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	she	the dragon		tree rules
2	murder not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dragon not said here	dragon	dragon's sleep	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	sleep		dragon			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

she wanted him gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she wanted him to leave the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	the farm					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Theme

Option 4

she hoped Stan would just walk away quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hoped	nsubj
2	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Stan	Stan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walk	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hoped	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	she						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	walk away	would	Stan					away, quietly property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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