Test 2 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

Yo, what stopped his wife from vanishing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stop, vanish · To what, where: wife

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 vanishing	mark
8	vanishing	vanish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past		his wife					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wife=Eventuality
2	vanish	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

a thorn in her shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thorn	det
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 shoe	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shoe	nmod:poss
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thorn	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a nail in the threshold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nail	det
2	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 threshold	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 threshold	det
5	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nail	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a spell cast by the old miller's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spell	det
2	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spell	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 wife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 miller	amod
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 miller	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	participle		a spell not said here				by the old miller's wife	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by wife=Destination

Option 4

her husband calling her name from inside the house

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 husband	nmod:poss
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	nsubj
3	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	her husband	her name		the house			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from house=Source
2	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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