Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

Wait, so Simon wanted to drown the cat cos she's knackered, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Simon · What happens: wait, want, drown, knacker · To what, where: cat, Simon

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1936 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part 73: the cruel brothers are banished, and the old cat and dog join the fox's war» 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	_	5 wanted	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
4	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 drown	mark
7	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drown	obj
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 knackered	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knackered	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 knackered	aux:pass
13	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 drown	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	Simon		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	the cat	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
4	knacker	present · passive		Simon	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she never catches mice no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 catches	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catches	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 catches	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 catches	advmod
5	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catches	obj
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 catches	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	present	she	mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 2

Nah, Simon just wanted to give her a bath and a cuddle though

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bath	det
10	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cuddle	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cuddle	det
13	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bath	conj
14	though	though	ADV	_	7 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Simon						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here	a bath and a cuddle	Simon			though property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bath=Theme

Option 3

Nah, he wanted her for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, she's gone off the mice now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 mice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mice	det
8	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obl
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	present · passive	she	the mice			now		tree rules

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