Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

the scholar wanted him as a specimen, that's sick, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scholar, that · What happens: want, be · To what, where: him

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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 scholar	det
2	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 specimen	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 specimen	det
7	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 sick	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wanted	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	11 sick	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the scholar	him = he				as a specimen	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as specimen=Attribute
2	is	present	that					sick property	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

nah, for a jar at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 jar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 jar	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 jar	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	nmod

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

Option 2

yeah, for his study wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wall	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 wall	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wall	nmod:poss
5	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wall	compound
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, for a collection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 collection	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 collection	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 collection	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 collection	det
5	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah, he wanted him pinned up in a glass case for his collection at the museum

The tree, 16 words

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	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	pinned	pin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pinned	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 case	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 case	det
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 case	compound
11	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 collection	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 collection	nmod:poss
14	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 case	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 museum	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 museum	det
17	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	him = he		a glass case for his collection		at the museum	tree rules
2	pin up not said to happen	participle	him = he not said here						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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