Test 11 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

How did the Prince stop the dragons spotting him, then?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince, dragons · What happens: be, stop, spot · To what, where: dragons, Prince

This is test 11 · ★ 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prince	det
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dragons	det
7	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	obj
8	spotting	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dragons	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spotting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stop	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					how property	tree rules
2	stop	present	the Prince	the dragons		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector dragon=Eventuality
3	spot	gerund	the dragons not said here		Prince			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

He was invisible

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	3 invisible	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invisible	cop
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wore a cloak

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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cloak	det
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	He	a cloak					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme

Option 3

He used a dark spell

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spell	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spell	amod
5	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	He	a dark spell					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient

Option 4

He held a pebble in his mouth that made him invisible

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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pebble	det
4	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pebble	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pebble	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	He	a pebble		his mouth			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme in mouth=Location
2	make	past	a pebble	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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