Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem…
Mate, how did the Prince of the Air actually nab Rosalie, innit?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: nab, innit · To what, where: Rosalie
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1696 «Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem for Rosalie» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nab | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 nab | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nab | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nab | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Air | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Air | det |
| 9 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | nmod |
| 10 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 11 nab | advmod |
| 11 | nab | nab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mate | conj |
| 12 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nab | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 nab | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nab | past · do-support | the Prince of the Air | Rosalie | actually property | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=Patient | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | the Prince of the Air 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
Snatched her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Snatched | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | her = she | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2
He sent spirits to grab her
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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grab | mark |
| 5 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grab | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | He | spirits | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grab | to-infinitive | He not said here | her = she | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 3
Kidnapped
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kidnapped | kidnap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kidnap | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He had his spirits carry her off
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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 carry | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past | his spirits | her = she | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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