Test 9 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…

What was the Prince doing out, like, on his way back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: do out · To what, where: way

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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	5 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 doing	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 doing	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	5 doing	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl:unmarked
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 way	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do out	past · progressive	the Prince			Prince's way			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

he had been sent to bring the Princess back home

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	4 sent	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		he					tree rules
2	bring back	to-infinitive	he not said here		the Princess			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

coming back from the hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 coming	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 hunt	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunt	det
5	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	gerund				the hunt			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunt=Initial_Location

Option 3

he was carrying a message from the king to the farm

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 carrying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carrying	aux
3	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 farm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 farm	det
11	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · progressive	he	a message		the farm		from the king	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme from king=Initial_Location to farm=Destination

Option 4

riding back to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 riding	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride back	gerund				the palace			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory

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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