Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

did the princes just vanish like Pokemon or what

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princes · What happens: vanish

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1504 «Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Michael the Star Gazer finds two magic laurels» 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vanish	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vanish	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 vanish	advmod
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 Pokemon	case
7	Pokemon	Pokemon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 vanish	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Pokemon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · do-support	the princes					like Pokemon	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, like they went poof and nobody knew where

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poof	poof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knew	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they	poof					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poof=Theme
2	know	past	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they got swallowed up by the garden hedge and nobody dared to look for them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swallowed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swallowed	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swallowed	aux:pass
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 swallowed	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 hedge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hedge	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hedge	compound
10	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dared	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 dared	nsubj
13	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swallowed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 dared	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow up	past · passive	the garden hedge	they		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	dare	past	nobody			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		for them = they	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 3

yeah, like they got sent off to the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 sent	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sent	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sent	aux:pass
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 sent	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 coast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coast	det
10	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past · passive		they		the coast			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to coast=Destination

Option 4

yeah, like they went poof in the middle of the night and the guards had no clue at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poof	poof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guards	det
15	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 clue	det
18	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they	poof		the middle of the night			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poof=Theme
2	have	past	the guards	no clue		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

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