Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…

Proper tricky, what did the Prince find when the cloud cleared?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tricky, cloud · What happens: do, find, clear · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 tricky	advmod
2	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tricky	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cleared	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cloud	det
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cleared	nsubj
12	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 find	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the Prince	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	find	present	tricky		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	clear	participle	the cloud		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source

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

the lion was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lion					asleep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they had all vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanished	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 vanished	advmod
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · perfect	they					all property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the lion and the Giant had both turned into stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Giant	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Giant	det
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lion	conj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	aux
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 turned	advmod
8	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 stones	case
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		the lion		stones		both property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 4

a great golden castle standing in the middle of the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 castle	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 castle	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 castle	amod
4	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 castle	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 field	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	a great golden castle not said here			the middle of the field			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location

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