Test 10 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

Why'd the dog nick the ring off the cat, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog · What happens: nick · To what, where: ring

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 nick	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 nick	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	nsubj
5	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 cat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nick	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	5 nick	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	would	the dog	the ring				off the cat	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme off cat=Source

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

he wanted it for himself

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	it				for himself = he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he was jealous of the cat

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	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the cat; jealous property	tree rules

Option 3

he was jealous of the cat for winning the master's love

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	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	obl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 winning	mark
8	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 jealous	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 master	det
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 love	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 master	case
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	of the cat; jealous property	tree rules
2	win	gerund	he not said here		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	love		the master		nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

he was jealous of the cat and wanted to be its master

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	3 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	cop
3	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jealous	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jealous	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	12 master	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 master	cop
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		of the cat; jealous property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	cat's master		tree rules

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