Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor her…

did the giant just vanish or what

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1695 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Giants and the Herd-boy: a poor herd-boy helps a wounded giant, gets a magic loaf and an invisible belt, and wins his master's daughter» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 vanish	advmod
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 did	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the giant					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality
2	vanish	present							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

yeah he vanished in a puff of smoke after the herd-boy grabbed the belt off his hip

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 vanished	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 vanished	nsubj
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 puff	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puff	det
6	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vanished	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 smoke	case
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puff	nmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 grabbed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
11	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 herd	punct
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grabbed	nsubj
14	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 vanished	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 belt	det
16	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grabbed	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 hip	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hip	nmod:poss
19	hip	hip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	vanish	past	he		a puff of smoke	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	past	the herd boy	the belt	boy's hip	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent belt=Theme off hip=Source
3	puff			smoke		nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah he didn't vanish, he just shrank small and climbed back into the hole to the cellar

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 vanish	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vanish	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vanish	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 vanish	advmod
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shrank	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shrank	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 shrank	advmod
9	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vanish	parataxis
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shrank	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 climbed	cc
12	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shrank	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 climbed	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climbed	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 cellar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cellar	det
19	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not vanish	past · do-support	he			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shrink	past	he		small property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	climb back	past	he not said here	the hole	to the cellar	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_Location to cellar=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he just dipped when the herd-boy grabbed hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dipped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dipped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dipped	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dipped	advmod
5	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hold	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
8	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boy	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 herd	punct
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nsubj
11	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hold	amod
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	dip	past	he	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	participle		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hold		the herd boy	tree rules

Option 4

nah he got caught by the herd-boy and stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	aux:pass
4	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 herd	punct
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obl:agent
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stayed	cc
11	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	the herd boy	he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	stay	past	the herd boy not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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