Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and…

the table just vanished every time, that's actually a whole banger of a trick, fr

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: table, that · What happens: vanish, be · To what, where: whole banger

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1921 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, part 58: the sisters spy on the goat's magic table, and the mother kills the goat» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 vanished	advmod
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 banger	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 banger	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 banger	cop
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	13 banger	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 banger	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 banger	amod
13	banger	banger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 trick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 trick	det
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 banger	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fr	punct
18	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 banger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	the table				time		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	that	a whole banger and fr				of a trick; actually property	tree rules

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

A knife chopped it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 knife	det
2	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopped	nsubj
3	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chopped	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 chopped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop up	past	a knife	it					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sister took it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	past	the sister	it				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Her sister's magic words always made it disappear again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sister	case
4	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 made	obj
9	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 made	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 disappear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Her sister's magic words	it		always property	tree rules
2	disappear	infinitive			again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	word		Her sister				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Magic words made it go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	amod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Magic words	it					tree rules
2	go away	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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