Test 4 · ★ · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…
Did the gobby prince get what was coming to him?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gobby prince · What happens: do, get, come · To what, where: prince
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | gobby | gobby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 get | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 coming | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the gobby prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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
yeah, he got a bruise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bruise | det |
| 6 | bruise | bruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a bruise | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bruise=Stimulus |
Option 2
nah, Mannikin let him off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 let | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let off | past | Mannikin | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, Mannikin spear-ed him off his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 ed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ed | compound |
| 4 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 spear | punct |
| 6 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 him | dislocated |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 him | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 him | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, Mannikin nabbed him in the dust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 nabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nabbed | punct |
| 3 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | nabbed | nab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nabbed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dust | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dust | det |
| 8 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nab | past | Mannikin | him = he | the dust | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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