Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem…

Was the Prince of the Golden Isle chill about losing her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, Golden Isle chill · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: her

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chill	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chill	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 chill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chill	det
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chill	amod
7	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chill	compound
8	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 losing	mark
10	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 chill	acl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 losing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince					of the Golden Isle chill	tree rules
2	lose	gerund	the Golden Isle chill not said here	her = she					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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

Yes, he was calm about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 calm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 calm	cop
5	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 calm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; calm property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, he was perfectly inconsolable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 inconsolable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 inconsolable	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inconsolable	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inconsolable	cop
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 inconsolable	advmod
6	inconsolable	inconsolable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					inconsolable, perfectly property	tree rules

Option 3

No, he never stopped mourning and roamed the world in grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 stopped	advmod
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mourning	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stopped	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 roamed	cc
8	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roamed	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 grief	case
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not stop	past	he			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	mourn	gerund	he not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	roam	past	he not said here	the world	grief	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme world=Trajectory

Option 4

No, he searched the seas for her and wept for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 searched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 searched	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searched	nsubj
4	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seas	det
6	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 searched	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 searched	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wept	cc
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 searched	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 months	case
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	he	the seas				for her = she	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Location for she=Theme
2	weep	past	he not said here				month		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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