Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

Did the snail mum wanna be cooked, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, cook, innit · To what, where: snail mum, wanna

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mum	compound
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 cooked	nsubj:pass
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 cooked	aux:pass
7	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Did	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 cooked	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the snail mum	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality
2	cook	infinitive · passive	wanna	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	innit	infinitive		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, she wanted a silver spoon

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spoon	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoon	compound
7	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she wanted a silver dish

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dish	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dish	compound
7	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

Option 3

Yeah, she wanted tea

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

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

Option 4

Nah, she hated it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	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 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	she	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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