Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carr…

she says she wants to be human, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: say, want, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 816 «Andersen's tales, The Dryad, part 27: the chestnut is carried to Paris and the Dryad longs to be human» 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	7 human	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 human	cop
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wants	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 human	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	she		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	she		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	human property	tree rules
4	be		she not said here		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

yeah, she wants to be human for a whole year of dancing and singing, no cap

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wants	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 human	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 human	cop
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wants	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 human	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 dancing	case
13	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 year	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 singing	cc
15	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 dancing	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wants	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she	no cap			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here		year	human property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	gerund	no cap not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, one night of life, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 night	nummod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she just wants to be a tree forever and never walk on the cobblestones

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wants	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wants	advmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 tree	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 tree	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 tree	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walk	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 walk	advmod
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 cobblestones	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cobblestones	det
16	cobblestones	cobblestone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	she				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	to-infinitive		a tree		forever property	tree rules
3	not walk	infinitive	she not said here		the cobblestones		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cobblestone=Trajectory

Option 4

nah, she wants to stay tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wants	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wants	nsubj
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stay	mark
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	tree					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tree=Location

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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