Test 8 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Why'd the dwarfs want the dragon up and about, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: want up · To what, where: dragon

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 want	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dwarfs	det
4	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	5 want	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bruv	cc
10	about	about	ADV	_	12 bruv	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want up	would	the dwarfs	the dragon					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dragon=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

To fight the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fight	mark
2	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fight	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive		the children					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To eat everyone but them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 eat	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 them	cc
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive		everyone					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 3

So the dragon would melt the Pole and drown everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 melt	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dragon	det
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 melt	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 melt	aux
5	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pole	det
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 melt	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drown	cc
9	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 melt	conj
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 drown	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	the dragon	the Pole					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient pole=Result
2	drown	infinitive	the dragon not said here	everyone					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 4

Because they wanted the dragon to carry them across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 carry	mark
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carry	obj
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the dragon					tree rules
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dragon not said here	them = they		the sea			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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