Test 3 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Did Narcissus actually get out of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Narcissus · What happens: get out · To what, where: castle

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1882 «Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: Melinette saves Potentilla from poison and traps Grumedan» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 castle	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	past · do-support	Narcissus	the castle				actually property	tree rules

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

Nah, the clouds kept rolling him back, so he sat on the roof and sulked for ages

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clouds	det
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolling	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 rolling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 sat	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sat	nsubj
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 roof	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roof	det
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sulked	cc
17	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ages	case
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sulked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	keep	past	the clouds				tree rules
2	roll back	gerund	the clouds not said here	him = he			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
3	sit	past	he		the roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
4	sulk	past	the clouds not said here			for ages	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nah, the guards caught him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the guards	him = he			again		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the clouds kept rolling him back to the castle roof, every single time he jumped

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clouds	det
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolling	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 rolling	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 roof	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 roof	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roof	compound
12	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jumped	punct
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jumped	obl:unmarked
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 jumped	nsubj
18	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	the clouds			tree rules
2	roll	gerund	the clouds not said here	him = he		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
3	jump	past	he		time	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the clouds kept rolling him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clouds	det
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rolling	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 rolling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the clouds						tree rules
2	roll back	gerund	the clouds not said here	him = he					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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