Test 9 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the fal…

was the prince down in the hall, or chilling upstairs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: chill

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1172 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess Desiree, part 38: the false bride is taken to the palace and exposed» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chilling	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 was	nsubj
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 was	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chilling	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 chilling	cc
10	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	10 chilling	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive						upstairs property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Out riding in the forest with his huntsmen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	2 riding	advmod
2	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 huntsmen	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 huntsmen	nmod:poss
8	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund				the forest		with his huntsmen; out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Riding in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 forest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Riding	obl

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

Option 3

Out in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Out	out	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Out	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Upstairs in his rooms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 rooms	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rooms	nmod:poss
4	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Upstairs	obl

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

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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