Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…

why did the king's dinner keep vanishing, lol?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dinner · What happens: keep, vanish · To what, where: dinner

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real Princess» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 dinner	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dinner	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dinner	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 keep	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present		the king's dinner					tree rules
2	vanish	gerund	the king's dinner not said here						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 cook was hiding it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hiding	aux
4	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	the cook	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Frisk kept stealing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frisk	frisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stealing	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Frisk						tree rules
2	steal	gerund	Frisk not said here	Frisk					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 3

the Princess had sent a spell to hide it

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	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spell	det
6	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hide	mark
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		the Princess					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination spell=Theme
2	hide	to-infinitive		spell					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the Prime Minister ate it secretly every night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Minister	det
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	3 Minister	compound
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the Prime Minister	it			night	secretly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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