Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

Bruv, what was the ting in the labyrinth, them hands sticking out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, Bruv hands · What happens: be, stick out · To what, where: ting, labyrinth

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hands	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ting	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 ting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ting	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ting	det
6	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 labyrinth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 labyrinth	det
9	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ting	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bruv	nmod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sticking	nsubj
13	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 sticking	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sticking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv them	the ting		the labyrinth			tree rules
2	stick out	gerund	Bruv hands						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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

Loads of hands poking out of the soil wearing bracelets and bits of cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 poking	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 hands	case
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Loads	nmod
4	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 soil	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 soil	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soil	det
8	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poking	obl
9	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 poking	conj
10	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wearing	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bits	cc
12	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bracelets	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cloth	case
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke out	gerund	Loads of hands	the soil					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme
2	wear	gerund	Loads of hands not said here	bracelets and bits of cloth					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hands with names carved on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 names	case
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hands	nmod
4	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 names	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	participle		names not said here				on names = name	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination

Option 3

Hands sticking up from the ground, with gold bracelets engraved with names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Hands	acl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sticking	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sticking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bracelets	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bracelets	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bracelets	compound
10	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hands	conj
11	engraved	engrave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bracelets	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 names	case
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 engraved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	gerund	Hands and gold bracelets not said here			the ground			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	engrave	participle		gold bracelets not said here				with names	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with name=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hands with gold bracelets and names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 bracelets	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bracelets	compound
4	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hands	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 names	cc
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bracelets	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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