Test 5 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

did the sporting editor want to blanket him or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sporting editor · What happens: sport, want · To what, where: blanket

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 editor	det
3	sporting	sport	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 editor	amod
4	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 blanket	mark
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blanket	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 want	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sport	gerund							tree rules
2	want	past · do-support	the sporting editor	blanket					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blanket=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, let him go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, blanket him, take him to the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 blanket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blanket	punct
3	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	nsubj
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blanket	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 stable	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stable	det
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive	blanket	him = he		the stable			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stable=Destination

Option 3

Nah, they just wanted him to sit still

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	him = he					tree rules
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, blanket him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 blanket	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blanket	punct
3	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blanket	obj

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

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