Test 7 · ★ · Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 29: Pluto carries…

did Pluto actually want her to be happy?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pluto · What happens: want, be · To what, where: Pluto

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2070 «Wonder-Book, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 29: Pluto carries Proserpina to his gloomy palace» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Pluto	aux
2	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 happy	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		Pluto				actually property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pluto not said here					happy property	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

Nah, he just wanted a servant, lowkey

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lowkey	punct
9	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 servant	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a servant and lowkey					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme

Option 2

Kinda, he wanted a snack, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snack	det
6	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 honestly	punct
8	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a snack				honestly, kinda property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot snack=Theme

Option 3

Nope, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Kinda, he wanted someone to love, no lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 love	mark
7	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 someone	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	someone				kinda property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
2	love	to-infinitive	he not said here	someone not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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