Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

what did the sons always want to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sons · What happens: do, want

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sons	det
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the sons	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sons not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Go out into the world and join the big deeds their father talked about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 world	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 join	cc
7	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deeds	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deeds	amod
10	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 join	obj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 talked	nsubj
13	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deeds	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 talked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here		the world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	present	you not said here	the big deeds			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Patient
3	talk about	past	deeds's father	the big deeds not said here		about property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deed=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Go out and join big deeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 join	cc
4	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deeds	amod
6	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	join	present	you not said here	big deeds					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Go out and see the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 see	cc
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
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	go out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	the world					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

Option 4

Ride out to join battles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Ride	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 join	mark
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ride	xcomp
5	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride out	imperative	you not said here					out property	tree rules
2	join	to-infinitive	you not said here	battles					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient

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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