Test 14 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

Who wanted to marry the laundry-maid for his wife?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: want, marry · To what, where: laundry maid

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 marry	mark
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maid	det
6	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maid	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 laundry	punct
8	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 maid	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive		the laundry maid				for maid's wife	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient

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

the gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the butler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butler	det
2	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the squire's young eldest son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squire	det
2	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 squire	case
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 son	amod
5	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 son	amod
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the groom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 groom	det
2	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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