Test 9 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

Did the Fairy just leave after helping, or did she stick around?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: leave, help, stick around

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leave	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 leave	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stick	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 stick	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stick	aux
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stick	nsubj
12	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
13	around	around	ADV	_	12 stick	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	the Fairy		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help	gerund	the Fairy not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	stick around	past · do-support	Fairy	around property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

She vanished when Helena turned round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 vanished	nsubj
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 turned	advmod
4	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 vanished	advcl
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	She						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn round	past	Helena					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She stayed with Helena until the morning and then slipped out of the kitchen door without a sound

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 Helena	case
4	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
5	until	until	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slipped	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 slipped	advmod
10	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 door	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipped	obl
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 sound	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sound	det
18	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	She				morning	with Helena	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with helena=Location
2	slip out	past	She not said here	the kitchen door			then	without a sound	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

She flew off through the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	She			the window			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through window=Location

Option 4

She disappeared into thin air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disappeared	nsubj
2	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 air	case
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disappeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	She			thin air			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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