Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, pa…

Why'd Sigurd not wanna go hunting, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sigurd · What happens: not go, hunt

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 714 «Fairy Book, The Horse Gullfaxi And The Sword Gunnfoder, part 54: Sigurd hides three times and is cursed by a giantess» 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	6 go	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 go	dep
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 go	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	7 hunting	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	would	Sigurd						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hunt	gerund	Sigurd not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he was scared of the forest and wanted to stay home all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stay	mark
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 stay	advmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stay	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		of the forest; scared property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	day	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he wanted to stay in bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			bed			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bed=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he just wanted to stay home by the fire with his stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 stepmother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 stepmother	nmod:poss
12	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					by the fire; with his stepmother; home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fire=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he just wanted to stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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