Test 15 · ★ · Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: t…

Why did her treasures disappear in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: treasures, her · What happens: do, disappear, treasure · To what, where: end

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 1680 «Household Tales, The Youth and the Witch-maiden, part 4: the birds lead him to the moonlit spring» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 treasures	nmod:poss
4	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disappear	nsubj
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disappear	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	disappear	present	her treasures	in the end	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	treasure		her = she		nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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

They melted away, cos it was gold.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 melted	nsubj
2	melted	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 melted	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 gold	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gold	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gold	cop
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melted	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 melted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt away	past	They					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	it					cos gold	tree rules

Option 2

They turned to dust, cos it was magic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 dust	case
4	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 magic	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 magic	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 magic	cop
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turned	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	They			dust			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to dust=Trajectory
2	is	past	dust					magic property	tree rules

Option 3

They vanished like wind, cos it was magic and never meant to last long.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 wind	case
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vanished	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 magic	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 magic	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 magic	cop
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vanished	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 meant	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 meant	advmod
12	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 magic	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 last	mark
14	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 meant	xcomp
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 last	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vanished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They	like wind	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	wind	magic property	tree rules
3	not mean	past	wind not said here		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	last not said to happen	to-infinitive	wind not said here	long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They vanished like wind, cos it was magic.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 wind	case
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vanished	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 magic	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 magic	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 magic	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 magic	cop
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 vanished	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 vanished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	They					like wind	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	wind					magic property	tree rules

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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