Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar…

Did the cat want the butter, like, for itself?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: want · To what, where: butter

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1997 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Munachar and Manachar: greedy Manachar eats every raspberry, so Munachar sets out to make a rope and hang him» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 butter	det
6	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 itself	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 want	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the cat	the butter					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot butter=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it just wanted to lick it

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 lick	mark
7	lick	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	lick not said to happen	to-infinitive		it					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it wanted to scrape the butter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 scrape	mark
6	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butter	det
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scrape	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	scrape not said to happen	to-infinitive		the butter					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient

Option 3

Nah, it wanted to scrape the butter off the dish and lick the knife clean

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 scrape	mark
6	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butter	det
8	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scrape	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 dish	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dish	det
11	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scrape	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lick	cc
13	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lick	obj
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lick	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	it				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	scrape not said to happen	to-infinitive		the butter	the dish		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent butter=Theme off dish=Trajectory
3	lick	present		the knife		clean property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knife=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it wanted to eat the cream

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cream	det
8	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	it						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive		the cream					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Patient

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