Test 2 · ★ · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…

lol so the youth wanted to feel scared, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: want, feel

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 783 «Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is married off to a beggar fiddler» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 wanted	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 feel	mark
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the youth						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here					scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

yep, he kept hoping the castle would be fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fun	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hoping	obj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fun	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fun	cop
10	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hope	gerund		the castle		tree rules
3	is	would	hoping		fun property	tree rules

Option 2

yep, he kept saying he couldn't shudder, which annoyed everyone in the castle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shudder	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 shudder	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 shudder	advmod
9	shudder	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saying	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 everyone	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 everyone	nsubj
12	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 everyone	amod
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 saying	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	he		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here	everyone	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not shudder	could	he		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he kept saying he couldn't shudder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shudder	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 shudder	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 shudder	advmod
9	shudder	shudder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	he	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	he not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not shudder	could	he	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

nah, he only wanted to play a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 play	obj

#	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	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	a game					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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