Test 12 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…
Did the Prince's sister help him out, the Princess Argentine?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: help out · To what, where: him
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sister | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Prince | case |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 help | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Argentine | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Argentine | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Argentine | compound |
| 12 | Argentine | Argentine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help out | present | the Prince's sister | him = he | the Princess Argentine obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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
Yeah, through the Prince of the Gnomes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 Prince | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prince | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gnomes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gnomes | det |
| 8 | Gnomes | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Prince | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she sent him a pebble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 sent | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pebble | det |
| 7 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | she | a pebble | him = he | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pebble=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, via the Fairy Despair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 Despair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Despair | punct |
| 3 | via | via | ADP | _ | 6 Despair | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Despair | det |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Despair | amod |
| 6 | Despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, not really
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 really | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 really | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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