Test 4 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Who's the mate who kept bringing news to Narcissus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be, keep, bring · To what, where: mate, news, Narcissus

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 mate	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mate	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mate	det
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mate	acl:relcl
7	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 kept	xcomp
8	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bringing	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Narcissus	case
10	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 bringing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the mate		tree rules
2	keep	past	the mate			tree rules
3	bring	gerund	the mate not said here	news	Narcissus	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme to narcissus=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 · ✓ the right answer

Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Potentilla	case
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Philomel	conj

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

Option 2

Philomel, the little bird that always sang to Potentilla in the palace garden and flew to Narcissus

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bird	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bird	amod
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Philomel	appos
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sang	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 sang	advmod
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bird	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Potentilla	case
10	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 garden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 garden	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 garden	compound
14	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flew	cc
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sang	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Narcissus	case
18	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the little bird		Potentilla	the palace garden		always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
2	fly	past	the little bird not said here		Narcissus				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to narcissus=Result

Option 3

Her cousin, the yellow canary bird

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
6	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	conj

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

Option 4

Philomel, Potentilla's faithful bird who flew from the Princess's window every morning

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Philomel	philomel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Potentilla	case
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Philomel	appos
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 window	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Princess	case
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Potentilla's faithful bird			the Princess's window	morning		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from window=Trajectory

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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