Test 1 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary,…

Ok so the giant wanted the kid cooked, like for real, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant, kid · What happens: want, cook

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1991 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary, part 1: Conall ends his tale, and two greedy farmers kill a poor man's cow» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 wanted	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooked	nsubj
8	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wanted	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 real	case
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cooked	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	8 cooked	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the giant						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	cook	past	the kid						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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

Nah, the giant just wanted the kid to play with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wanted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 play	mark
10	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kid	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the giant	the kid					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme
2	play	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	the kid not said here					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 joke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the lady was gonna chop him up for the giant's dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 chop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chop	cop
6	gonna	gonna	PART	_	7 chop	mark
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chop	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 chop	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dinner	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 giant	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lady					for the giant's dinner; chop property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, she wanted to cook him for the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	to	to	PART	_	6 cook	mark
6	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cook	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 giant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he				for the giant	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Product for giant=Beneficiary

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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