Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…

wait the wrens wouldn't eat till the bear said sorry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, wrens, bear · What happens: wait, not eat, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wrens	det
3	wrens	wren	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	advcl
11	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not eat	would	the wrens		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: apologize	past	the bear	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

nah, they were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 hungry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

nah, they just ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, they wanted the bear to leave first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the bear					tree rules
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bear not said here					first property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they wanted him to beg pardon first

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 beg	mark
7	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
8	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 beg	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	him = he					tree rules
2	beg speech: request not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	pardon				first property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient

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