Test 5 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wick…

dude, what does the Cap of Darkness do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dude · What happens: do · To what, where: Cap

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1458 «Blue Fairy Book, Perseus: the Terrible Head turns the wicked King to stone» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cap	det
6	Cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Darkness	case
8	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Cap	nmod
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	dude	the Cap of Darkness					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Eventuality
2	do	present	dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

makes him invisible so the monsters can't see him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 makes	obj
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 makes	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 monsters	det
6	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 makes	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		him = he				invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	not see	can	the monsters	him = he		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

turns him to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 turns	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 stone	case
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present		him = he		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 3

lets him fly super fast through the air over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 lets	obj
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lets	xcomp
4	super	super	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fly	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present		him = he					tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	him = he not said here			the air		over the sea; fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

makes him invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 makes	obj
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		him = he				invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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