Test 9 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and…

Did the people actually want the mayor gone or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: do, want

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 653 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons: Johnnie and Tina trick the dragon back into chains, and he becomes the first cat» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	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	1 Did	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mayor	det
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 gone	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	want	present	the people					actually, gone property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot

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

Yeah, they wanted a new mayor now

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mayor	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mayor	amod
7	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	a new mayor			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mayor=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they liked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	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 liked	obj

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

Option 3

Nah, they'd been happy with him for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 happy	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 happy	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they'd been off with him for ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 been	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 been	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 been	aux
5	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 been	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 been	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 been	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be off	past · perfect	they				for ages	with him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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