Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess…

Yo, what did the birds spell out in the sky for Potentilla?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: do, spell out · To what, where: sky

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spell	nsubj
7	spell	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 spell	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sky	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spell	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Potentilla	case
13	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sky	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	spell out	present	the birds			the sky for Potentilla			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in sky=Manner

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

Potentilla

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Potentilla	potentilla	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Prince's name in glowing lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Prince	case
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 lights	case
6	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lights	amod
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	name		the Prince			glowing lights			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 3

her crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 crown	nmod:poss
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		her = she						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

her name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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