Test 12 · ★ · pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside:…

Why did Edmund wanna be a locksmith, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Edmund · What happens: do, be · To what, where: locksmith

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 660 «pg23661, Edmund and the Dragon, the town on the hillside: Edmund tricks the dragon and saves her drakling» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 locksmith	nsubj
4	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 locksmith	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 locksmith	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 locksmith	det
7	locksmith	locksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						anyway property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive	Edmund	a locksmith					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 · ✓ the right answer

To pick the cockatrice's lock, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pick	mark
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lock	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cockatrice	case
6	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 obvi	punct
8	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	to-infinitive		the cockatrice's lock					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent lock=Beneficiary obvi=Theme

Option 2

To pick the lock of the cockatrice's cave and steal the gold inside, obvi

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pick	mark
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lock	det
4	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cockatrice	det
7	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cave	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 cockatrice	case
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lock	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 steal	cc
11	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pick	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gold	det
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 steal	obj
14	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 steal	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 obvi	punct
16	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	to-infinitive		the lock of the cockatrice's cave					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent lock=Beneficiary obvi=Theme
2	steal	present		the gold				inside property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To open the big door, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 open	mark
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 obvi	punct
7	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 open	dep

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive		the big door					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

Option 4

To pick the cockatrice's lock so he could rescue the town, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pick	mark
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cockatrice	det
4	cockatrice	cockatrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lock	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cockatrice	case
6	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 rescue	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rescue	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rescue	aux
10	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pick	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rescue	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obvi	punct
14	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	to-infinitive		the cockatrice's lock					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent lock=Beneficiary obvi=Theme
2	rescue	could	cockatrice	the town					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

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