Test 13 · ★ · Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon fli…

did anyone want to be a Member after all that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: anyone · What happens: want, be · To what, where: Member

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 634 «Nesbit's tales, The Book of Beasts, part 2: the Dragon flies out, takes the soccer game, and ends Parliament» 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	3 want	aux
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 Member	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 Member	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Member	det
7	Member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 that	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 that	det:predet
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Member	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	anyone						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive		a Member			after that		tree rules

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

Nah, nobody would get elected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 elected	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 elected	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 elected	aux
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 elected	aux:pass
6	elected	elect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elect	would · passive		nobody					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, a few folk volunteered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 folk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 folk	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 folk	amod
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	volunteered	volunteer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 folk	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	volunteer	participle		a few folk not said here					vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, nobody would even stand, so the King had to hand-pick the Members himself at dawn

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 stand	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hand	mark
13	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 pick	punct
15	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hand	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Members	det
17	Members	Member	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 pick	obj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	17 Members	nmod:unmarked
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 dawn	case
20	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stand	would	nobody			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the King			tree rules
3	hand	to-infinitive	the King not said here			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	pick	infinitive	the King not said here	the Members King	dawn	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, loads of people put themselves forward for the job the very next morning

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 put	obj
8	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 job	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 job	det
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 next	advmod
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	loads of people	loads = load			morning	for the job; forward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Goal

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