Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 20: a secret poem…

Was the King gutted when she vanished, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, she · What happens: be, vanish

This is test 2 · ★ 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	4 gutted	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gutted	nsubj
4	gutted	gut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 vanished	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 vanished	nsubj
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gutted	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gutted	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the King					gut property	tree rules
2	vanish	past	she						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He cried for a while then went back to ruling

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 while	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	advcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 went	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 ruling	case
10	ruling	ruling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	He				while		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go back	past	He not said here				then	to ruling result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ruling=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He cried day and night

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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 night	cc
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	He				day		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He sobbed all night long

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 sobbed	nsubj
2	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sobbed	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sobbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past	He				night	long property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He wept without stopping

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 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 stopping	mark
4	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	He						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	gerund	He not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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