Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christm…

did the oak want the little blue flower too, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oak · What happens: want · To what, where: little blue flower

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 867 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream: a Christmas storm uproots the oak as he dreams of summer and of all the small plants rising up with him» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oak	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flower	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flower	amod
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flower	amod
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 want	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the oak	the little blue flower					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=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

yes, he asked for it, longing to have it with him always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 longing	punct
8	longing	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 asked	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 longing	xcomp
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	obl
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	long	gerund	he not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	it	with him = he; always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, he asked for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he					for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yes, he begged the wind to bring it up to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 begged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bring	mark
8	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 bring	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he	the wind					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring up not said to happen	to-infinitive		wind	him = he				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

he never asked for it

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	3 asked	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	past	he					for it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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