Test 12 · ★ · pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trap…

The Princess could have stayed in her tower, right, so why'd she go out in the streets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: stay, go out · To what, where: tower, streets

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 656 «pg23661, Sabrinetta and Elfin, part 24: the dragon is trapped in a bottle and Elfin's hands are burnt» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stayed	aux
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tower	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tower	nmod:poss
8	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	5 stayed	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 go	advmod
14	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stayed	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 streets	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 streets	det
20	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stayed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	could · perfect	the Princess			Princess's tower			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tower=Location
2	go out	would	Princess			the streets		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

she wanted air

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	air					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme

Option 2

she wanted to find the Prince and the dragon

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Prince	det
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dragon	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dragon	det
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the Prince and the dragon					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic

Option 3

she was scared

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she could not walk through the town in her gown

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	4 walk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 gown	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gown	nmod:poss
10	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	could	she			the town		in her gown	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through town=Initial_Location in gown=Trajectory

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