Test 6 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Poten…

Why did Potentilla drop the cup?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Potentilla · What happens: drop · To what, where: cup

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 drop	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drop	aux
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drop	nsubj
4	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cup	det
6	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · do-support	Potentilla	the cup					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

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

She saw Narcissus and ran to him, dead happy, after Frivola had told her he was dead

The tree, 17 words

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happy	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 happy	amod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
13	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 saw	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dead	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dead	cop
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	Narcissus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer narcissus=Stimulus
2	run	past	She not said here		Narcissus		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Frivola		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	Frivola			dead property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She saw Narcissus and ran to him, dead happy

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 happy	amod
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	She	Narcissus					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer narcissus=Stimulus
2	run	past	She not said here		Narcissus				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result

Option 3

She saw Narcissus across the room and ran straight to him, dead happy, dropping everything

The tree, 15 words

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 him	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 happy	amod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dropping	punct
16	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	conj
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 dropping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	She	Narcissus		the room	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer narcissus=Stimulus
2	run	past	She not said here		Narcissus		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	drop	gerund	She not said here	everything			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

Option 4

She spotted Narcissus and got too excited

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 spotted	nsubj
2	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spotted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spotted	conj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 excited	advmod
7	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	She		Narcissus				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent narcissus=Destination
2	get	past	She not said here					excited property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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