Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

so the mayor wanted to keep the money for himself, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mayor · What happens: want, keep · To what, where: money

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mayor	det
3	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 keep	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the mayor						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mayor not said here	the money				for mayor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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

Yeah, he kept it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he planned to give the boy all of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 planned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planned	nsubj
4	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 planned	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 give	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	all	the boy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient all=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he meant to keep most of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 meant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meant	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 keep	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	most of it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he figured the boy would get the whole lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 figured	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 figured	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	he						tree rules
2	get	would	the boy	the whole lot					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus

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