Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a…

The ass wanted to be a musician, dead right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ass · What happens: want, be · To what, where: musician

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 728 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel: a fairy turns a maiden into a nightingale, and her shepherd lover wins her back» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ass	det
2	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 musician	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 musician	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 musician	det
7	musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 right	amod
10	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 musician	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the ass						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ass not said here	a musician and dead right					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

Yeah, he meant to go to town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 town	case
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he planned to go to the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 planned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 planned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planned	nsubj
4	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 planned	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 city	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he stayed home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he wanted a farm

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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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