Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…

Why's the brother sending the lad away, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: send away · To what, where: lad

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sending	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sending	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sending	nsubj
5	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sending	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 sending	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 sending	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sending	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	present · progressive	the brother	the lad				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme

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 he wants the money the lad owes him from before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 money	det
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lad	det
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 owes	nsubj
8	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wants	parataxis
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 owes	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	8 owes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	cos	the money					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme
2	owe	present	the lad	cos				before property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

he wants her to marry rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 marry	mark
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 marry	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he	her = she					tree rules
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here					rich property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he doesn't like the engagement

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 engagement	det
6	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	he	the engagement					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot engagement=Theme

Option 4

he wants his sister to marry some rich lord from town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sister	nmod:poss
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 marry	mark
6	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 lord	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lord	amod
9	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marry	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lord	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he	his sister					tree rules
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	his sister not said here	some rich lord		town			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient

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