Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt…

Did the king want something funny in the story, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: want · To what, where: something, story

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 828 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: a burnt paper's last words, then a ruined son flies off in a magic trunk» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	obj
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 want	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	the king	something		the story			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=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

Yeah, something to make him cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 something	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 something	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he wanted something sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 wanted	obj
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod

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

Option 3

Yeah, something to make him laugh out loud, mate, every single night.

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 something	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 something	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	_	7 laugh	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 night	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	him = he not said here					loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, something to make him laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 something	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 something	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	laugh	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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