Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…

Why couldn't Rosalie get across the fountain, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rosalie · What happens: not get · To what, where: fountain

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
4	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 fountain	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fountain	det
8	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fountain	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	Rosalie			the fountain and mate			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across fountain=Destination

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 had no wings

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 wings	det
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	no wings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

Option 2

Water was too deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deep	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 deep	advmod
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Water					deep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No water-living powers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 powers	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 living	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 powers	compound
5	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

She had never learned the magic words to open the golden gate

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	4 learned	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 learned	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learned	advmod
4	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 words	det
6	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learned	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 open	mark
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learned	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gate	amod
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	past · perfect	She	the magic words					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	open	to-infinitive	She not said here	the golden gate					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=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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