Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the…

did the scabbard grow with the boy, for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: grow · To what, where: scabbard

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 670 «Fairy Tales (pg2435), The Boy Who Could Keep A Secret: the king adopts the boy, and the sword slides home» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scabbard	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scabbard	det
3	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present		the scabbard				with the boy	vn appear-48.1.1 «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

yep, it grew bigger and heavier until it was too big to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 heavier	cc
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 big	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 big	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 big	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 big	advmod
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 big	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	it	big property	tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, it grew bigger too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 grew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 grew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	it					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yep, it got longer too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 got	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	it					long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yep, it kept growing bigger too as he got older and taller over the years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 growing	xcomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kept	advcl
11	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 got	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 taller	cc
13	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 older	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 years	det
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it			tree rules
2	grow	gerund			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	he	year	old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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