Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

Wait, were the dragons well scary or just a bit daft?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: dragons

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dragons	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dragons	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragons	det
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 scary	advmod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dragons	amod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 daft	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	12 daft	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daft	obl:unmarked
12	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 scary	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the dragons					tree rules

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

Their eyes glowed red and fire came out of their mouths and noses and tails

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 glowed	nsubj
3	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glowed	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glowed	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 mouths	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 mouths	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouths	nmod:poss
11	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 noses	cc
13	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mouths	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tails	cc
15	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mouths	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	Their eyes					red property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	fire	eyes's mouths and noses and tails					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result

Option 2

Huge scaly beasts with flames pouring from their mouths and nostrils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beasts	amod
2	scaly	scaly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beasts	amod
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 flames	case
5	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beasts	nmod
6	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 flames	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 mouths	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouths	nmod:poss
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pouring	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nostrils	cc
11	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mouths	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund	flames not said here			flames's mouths and nostrils			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mouth=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They roared loudly at the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 roared	nsubj
2	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 roared	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Prince	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 roared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past	They					at the Prince; loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Flames came out their mouths and noses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouths	nmod:poss
5	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 noses	cc
7	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mouths	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	Flames	Flames's mouths and noses				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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