Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Was the prince's horse still there, or gone, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 prince	case
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Was	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 gone	cc
10	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						mate vocative; gone property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	2 there	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

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

Option 2

Gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gone, nowhere to be seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nowhere	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nowhere	punct
3	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nowhere	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive · passive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 4

Still stood by the bridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Still	still	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 bridge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bridge	det
5	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past					still	by the bridge	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bridge=Location

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