Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

Gutted, what made him want to go home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: him · What happens: gut, make, want, go · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle				vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past		him = he		tree rules
3	want	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A dream about a hunting trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 trip	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A dream of his old village burning down in a great fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 village	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 village	acl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 burning	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fire	amod
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	gerund	his old village not said here			a great fire		down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fire=Location
2	dream			his old village					nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A dream in which the queen was calling him back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 calling	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 queen	det
6	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 calling	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 calling	aux
8	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dream	appos
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 calling	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 calling	advmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	8 calling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	past · progressive	the queen		him = he	a dream		home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A dream about his mum and dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dream	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 mum	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dream	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dad	cc
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mum	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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