Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

so what did the genius want most, like really?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 genius	det
5	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 genius	acl:relcl
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 did	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 really	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 really	case
10	really	really	ADV	_	3 did	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the genius					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Eventuality
2	want	present	the genius not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

to be remembered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 remembered	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 remembered	aux:pass
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	to-infinitive · passive							vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to be the only one who ever built anything new in the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	5 one	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 built	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 built	advmod
8	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 built	obj
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 anything	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 village	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		the only one					tree rules
2	build	past	the only one	anything		the village	ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Product

Option 3

to have his name carved into the gate of heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 have	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carved	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 heaven	case
10	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		his name		tree rules
2	carve	participle	his name not said here		the gate of heaven	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	name		his = he			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

to be talked about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 talked	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 talked	aux:pass
3	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk about	to-infinitive · passive						about property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»

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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