Test 2 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the…

wait, the prince had a stone in his gob, innit? what did he do with it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, prince · What happens: wait, have, innit, do · To what, where: stone, gob

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1698 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the Prince escapes the giant, then Rosalie is snatched back» 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 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 gob	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gob	nmod:poss
10	gob	gob	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the prince	a stone	prince's gob		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
4	do	past · do-support	prince			with gob	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He nabbed it and went invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nabbed	nsubj
2	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nabbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nabbed	conj
6	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past	He	it					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	past	He not said here					invisible property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He nabbed it and went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nabbed	nsubj
2	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nabbed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nabbed	conj
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nab	past	He	it					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	past	He not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He swallowed it whole and ran off at the rocks in a rush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	obj
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallowed	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swallowed	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 rocks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocks	det
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ran	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 rush	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rush	det
13	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	He	it				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	run off	past	He not said here			the rocks		in a rush	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rock=Trajectory

Option 4

He swallowed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	He	it					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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