Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off…

So she wanted her kid took to God, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, kid · What happens: want, take, innit · To what, where: God

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 996 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother: Death carries off the child» 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 wanted	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kid	nmod:poss
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 God	case
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	want	past	she		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take	past	her kid	God	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to god=Result
3	innit	infinitive	her kid not said here		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

She wants him back, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 wants	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 wants	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want back	present	She	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, take the kid to God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 God	case
7	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	the kid	God				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kid=Theme to god=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, she wanted her kid taken up to God so he'd be safe forever

The tree, 15 words

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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 kid	nmod:poss
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 kid	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 taken	compound:prt
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 God	case
10	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 taken	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 safe	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 safe	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 safe	cop
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wanted	xcomp
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	15 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	her kid			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme
2	take up	participle		her kid not said here	God		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to god=Result
3	is not said to happen	would	kid			forever, safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, bring the kid home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here		the kid			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument kid=Destination

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