Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Princess of Canterbury: Jack wins the…

did the brothers actually want Jack along or nah

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 266 «English Fairy Tales, Princess of Canterbury: Jack wins the princess with an egg, a stick, a nut and fish» 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	3 brothers	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
7	along	along	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 want	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the brothers	Jack				actually, along property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jack=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

Yeah, they wanted him along

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	along	along	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod

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

Option 2

Yeah, they were thrilled to have him along on the great journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 thrilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thrilled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thrilled	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thrilled	cop
5	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thrilled	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj
9	along	along	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 journey	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 journey	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 journey	amod
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					thrilled property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	they not said here	him = he		the great journey		along property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Nah, they wanted him gone, but the king insisted he join the whole expedition

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 insisted	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 insisted	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 insisted	nsubj
11	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 join	nsubj
13	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 insisted	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 expedition	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 expedition	amod
16	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	him = he	gone property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	insist speech: other	past	the king			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	join	infinitive	king	the whole expedition		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Patient

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

Nah, they were stuck with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					with him = he; stuck property	tree rules

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