Test 10 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

The sea went mental at the end, didn't it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea · What happens: go, not do · To what, where: end

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1697 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the Prince is wrecked and finds a land of doomed lovers» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 did	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 did	nsubj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the sea				at the end	mental property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
2	not do	past	sea						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

It rose to the high clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 clouds	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clouds	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clouds	amod
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	It			the high clouds			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Initial_Location

Option 2

It calmed down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calmed	nsubj
2	calmed	calm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 calmed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	calm down	participle	It						vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It rose nearly to the skies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 rose	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 skies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 skies	det
6	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	It			the skies		nearly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sky=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It crashed on the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crashed	nsubj
2	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shore	det
5	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	It			the shore			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location

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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