Test 2 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning fl…

Bruv, why did the imps stick their heads out the bars?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: imps · What happens: stick out · To what, where: heads

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2022 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Tom Ochlin: Tom fetches the burning flail from hell and the Danes run off» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stick	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stick	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 imps	det
6	imps	imp	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stick	nsubj
7	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stick	obj
10	out	out	ADV	_	7 stick	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bars	det
12	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stick	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past · do-support	the imps	imps's heads				Bruv vocative; the bars obl; out property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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

They wanted to watch Tom fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fight	compound
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	Tom fight					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

Option 2

They were nosy about the visitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nosy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nosy	cop
3	nosy	nosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 visitor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 visitor	det
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nosy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					about the visitor; nosy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They wanted to know what he wanted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wanted	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	want	past	They	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want	past	he	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 4

They wanted to know what he wanted and whether he had brought any gold or food for them

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wanted	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brought	cc
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 brought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wanted	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 gold	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gold	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	They			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	want	past	he			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	bring	past · perfect	he	any gold or food	for gold	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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