Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

ngl, why'd the wife wish for a kid red like blood?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 red	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 red	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 wish	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wish	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wish	compound
7	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 red	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 kid	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kid	det
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wish	nmod
11	red	red	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 blood	case
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 red	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	red	present	ngl					like blood	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 · ← Mova's choice

cos she liked the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obj

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

Option 2

she fancied a red baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baby	amod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	a red baby					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus

Option 3

she was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she wanted one so badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 wanted	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 badly	advmod
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	one				badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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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