Test 5 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

Wait, why did Jenik wish the palace sunk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Jenik · What happens: wait, wish · To what, where: palace sunk

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wish	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	aux
5	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sunk	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sunk	compound
9	sunk	sunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wish	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wish	past · do-support	Jenik	the palace sunk					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sunk=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

He hated the fairy palace

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 palace	amod
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He	the fairy palace					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus

Option 2

He wanted his wife and the Princess gone so he could live alone

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Princess	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wife	acl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 live	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 live	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 live	aux
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	his wife and the Princess		tree rules
2	go	participle		his wife and the Princess not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live not said to happen	could	he		alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He wanted his wife and the Princess gone

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Princess	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wife	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	his wife and the Princess					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
2	go	participle		his wife and the Princess not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He wanted his money back

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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 money	nmod:poss
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	past	He	his money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme

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