Test 6 · ★ · Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4…

Did the Manticora want to stay out in the public, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Manticora · What happens: want, stay out · To what, where: public

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 636 «Rotundia Tales, Uncle James or The Purple Stranger, part 4: the Dragon goes back into his picture, and the island that spun the wrong way gives Rotundia its wrong-sized animals» 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 Manticora	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Manticora	det
3	Manticora	Manticora	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stay	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 public	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 public	det
10	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the Manticora						tree rules
2	stay out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Manticora not said here			the public			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location

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

He wanted to go back into the book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			the book			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He wanted to go back into the book and never come out again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the book			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	not come out	infinitive	He not said here		again	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

He wanted to stay in the public

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 public	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 public	det
7	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			the public			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in public=Location

Option 4

He wanted to go back into the book where it was quiet and dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 book	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 quiet	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quiet	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 quiet	cop
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dark	cc
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 quiet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	He			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the book		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	book		quiet property	tree rules
4	be		book not said here			tree rules

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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