Test 9 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

Wicked, what killed the old dad in the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kill · To what, where: old dad, end

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 killed	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 killed	nsubj
4	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dad	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dad	amod
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killed	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past		the old dad			in the end		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dad=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

Losing his boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 boy	nmod:poss
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		his boy					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality

Option 2

Missing his son for years and years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Missing	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 years	cc
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 years	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		his son			year		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Missing his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		his son					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Missing his son, who never came home from the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 son	amod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 came	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	not come	past	his Missing son			the wood		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location

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