Test 12 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess…

Why did the Queen's maids go all mental when she woke up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maids, she · What happens: do, go, wake up

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1881 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 18: the Enchanter's golden feast, fireworks and chariot ride to the King» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 maids	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Queen	case
6	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 mental	advmod
9	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 woke	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mental	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 woke	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present	the Queen's maids	mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake up	past	she		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

the palace had caught fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		the palace					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary fire=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a visitor was asking for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 visitor	det
2	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asking	aux
4	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · progressive	a visitor					for her = she	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it was too late

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	4 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

the King had come to visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 visit	mark
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the King						tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	the King not said here						vn meet-36.3-1 «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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