Test 8 · ★ · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

Mint, how did the little thing leave, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mint · What happens: do · To what, where: little thing leave

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	Mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leave	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leave	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	compound
8	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mint	the little thing leave					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

flew out the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 flew	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	past		the gate					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme

Option 2

vanished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

blew a dandelion puff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 puff	det
3	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 puff	compound
4	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past		a dandelion puff					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent puff=Patient

Option 4

floated off on a dandelion puff in the breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 floated	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 puff	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puff	det
5	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puff	compound
6	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 breeze	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	participle				a dandelion puff		in the breeze	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on puff=Source in breeze=Trajectory

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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