Test 6 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 21: the…
Did the Prince get them two blokes' cords off, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: get off · To what, where: them
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | 3 Prince | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 blokes | nummod |
| 7 | blokes | bloke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cords | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 blokes | case |
| 9 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 get | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nah | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 nah | cc |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 get | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | present | the Prince | them = they | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary cord=Theme |
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
Yeah, he cut them with his knife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cut | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cut | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 knife | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | he | them = they | with his knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with knife=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he couldn't loosen them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 loosen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 loosen | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 loosen | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 loosen | advmod |
| 6 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 loosen | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not loosen | could | he | them = they | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Nah, he gave up on them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | he | on them = they | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, he got them off fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | he | them = they | fine property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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