Test 5 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…

So after he buried the two dead Kings, did their hands pop back out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, hands · What happens: bury, pop · To what, where: two dead Kings

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 buried	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 buried	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	nsubj
4	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Kings	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Kings	nummod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Kings	amod
8	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pop	punct
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pop	aux
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pop	nsubj
13	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	15 out	advmod
15	out	out	ADV	_	13 pop	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	he	the two dead Kings					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
2	pop	past · do-support	Kings's hands					out property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: 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

Nope, they stayed buried below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buried	nsubj:pass
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 buried	aux:pass
5	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	below	below	ADV	_	5 buried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		they				below property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, sticking up through the ground and waving at the Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sticking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sticking	punct
3	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sticking	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sticking	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 waving	cc
9	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sticking	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	gerund				the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through ground=Destination
2	wave	gerund						at the Prince	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, sticking up through the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 sticking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sticking	punct
3	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sticking	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sticking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	gerund				the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through ground=Destination

Option 4

Yeah, popping up out of the soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 popping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 popping	punct
3	popping	pop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 popping	compound:prt
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	3 popping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop up	gerund				the soil			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out soil=Location

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