Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

Blimey, what did the oldest brother want him to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oldest brother, Blimey · What happens: want, do · To what, where: Blimey

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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	Blimey	blimey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 want	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brother	det
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Blimey	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Blimey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the oldest brother	Blimey					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Blimey not said here						vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Chop off his head and chuck it in the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	nsubj
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chop	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chuck	cc
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	infinitive	Chop off Chop's head	head		the well			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in well=Destination

Option 2

Take his gold and leave him by the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 gold	nmod:poss
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 leave	cc
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leave	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	leave	present	you not said here	him = he				by the road	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by road=Location

Option 3

Chuck it in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuck	chuck	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chuck	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 Chuck	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck in	imperative	you not said here	it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Chop his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	imperative	you not said here	his head					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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