Test 7 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Invisible Prince, part 22: the…

she wrote stuff on the trees, yeah? what did it say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, stuff · What happens: write, say · To what, where: stuff, trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trees	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrote	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 say	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wrote	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	she	stuff		the trees			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme on tree=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	stuff						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

She cries beside the golden tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cries	nsubj
2	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	She			the golden tree			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside tree=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She sits daily by the fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	daily	daily	ADV	_	2 sits	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fountain	det
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	She					by the fountain; daily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location

Option 3

She waits by the fountain now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waits	nsubj
2	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fountain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waits	obl
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 waits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	She				now	by the fountain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fountain=Location

Option 4

She sits every day by the fountain of gold waiting for her lover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl:unmarked
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fountain	det
7	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 gold	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fountain	nmod
10	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sits	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 lover	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lover	nmod:poss
13	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	She				day	by the fountain of gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location
2	wait	gerund	She not said here					for her lover	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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