Test 13 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Real talk, what did the knight want in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do, want · To what, where: knight, end

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knight	det
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 want	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Real talk	the knight					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality
2	want	present	Real talk				in the end		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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

To go back home to his wife in the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wife	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	to-infinitive				the valley		to his wife result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wife=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To return to the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 king	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive						to the king result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to king=Result

Option 3

To wed the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed	to-infinitive		the princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To go home to his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	home	home	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive						to his wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location

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