Test 4 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the…

how did the ring make the prince chill under the water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ring · What happens: be, make · To what, where: prince chill, water

This is test 4 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chill	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	compound
8	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ring					how property	tree rules
2	make	present		the prince chill		the water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chill=Product

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 · ← Mova's choice

It let him swim down fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	It	him = he					tree rules
2	swim down	infinitive	him = he not said here					down, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It turned the sea water into sweet fresh air for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It	the sea water		sweet fresh air		for him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme into air=Trajectory

Option 3

It made him dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	him = he				dry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It let him breathe down there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 breathe	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	It	him = he					tree rules
2	breathe down	infinitive	him = he not said here			there		down property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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