Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

wait, why did he wanna go to the wars so bad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: wars

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 go	dep
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wars	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wars	det
10	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bad	advmod
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · do-support	he			the wars			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location

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

for the medals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 medals	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 medals	det
3	medals	medal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

he hated the dust on the shelf

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dust	det
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 shelf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shelf	det
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obl

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

Option 3

he wanted to see the world

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the world					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was sad and bored, innit

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 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bored	cc
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sad	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 sad	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here						tree rules

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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