Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

Dude, why'd Sultan wanna talk to the wolf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: talk

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 talk	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 Sultan	punct
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 talk	nsubj
6	wanna	wanna	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wolf	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talk	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	infinitive	Dude					to the wolf	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wolf=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

He was hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

Dunno, just bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dunno	advcl

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

Option 3

He wanted to sort his life out

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 sort	mark
4	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sort	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 sort	compound:prt

#	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	sort out not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	his life					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was gonna get shot, innit

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	4 get	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	cop
3	gonna	gonna	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					get property	tree rules

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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