Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, par…

Did the Fairy's crystal palace get smashed in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: smash · To what, where: crystal palace, end

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1418 «Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 5: the White Bear takes the youngest daughter home to her family, but she must keep a promise» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smashed	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Fairy	case
5	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smashed	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smashed	aux:pass
8	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smashed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past · passive · do-support		the Fairy's crystal palace			in the end		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in end=Destination

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

Nah, it stayed up, it's still standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stayed	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 standing	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 standing	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stayed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	present · progressive	it				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, it shattered into bits all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shattered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shattered	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shattered	nsubj
4	shattered	shatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 bits	case
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shattered	obl
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 over	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	4 shattered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shatter	past	it					into bits result; over property	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bit=Result

Option 3

Nah, it's still there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 there	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 there	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 there	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				still	there property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it went into a thousand splinters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 splinters	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 splinters	nummod
8	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	it			thousand splinters			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into splinter=Initial_Location

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