Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the…

lol the bird wanted to get out, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: want, get out

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 230 «Arabian Nights, The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water, part 70: Parizade wins the bird and the Golden Water» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the bird						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bird not said here					out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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, it was scared of trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					of trees; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, it loved being caged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 caged	aux:pass
6	caged	cage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 loved	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	it						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cage not said to happen	gerund · passive							vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it didn't want to be caged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 want	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 caged	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 caged	aux:pass
9	caged	cage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	it						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cage not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive							vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»

Option 4

yeah, it wanted a snack

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snack	det
6	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

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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