Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy clim…

Did the hut just stay put, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hut · What happens: do, stay, put · To what, where: hut

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 862 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 73: Rudy climbs the mountain, meets the Ice Maiden, and loses his ring» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hut	acl
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stay	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the hut	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Eventuality
2	stay	infinitive	the hut not said here		tree rules
3	put	participle	the hut not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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

Nah, it vanished into thin air right in front of Rudy, proper spooky, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl
8	right	right	ADV	_	10 front	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Rudy	case
12	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spooky	punct
14	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spooky	amod
15	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vanished	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 vanished	discourse

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

Option 2

Nah, it sank into the snow, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sank	nsubj
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	it			the snow and mate			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it vanished into thin air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 vanished	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vanished	nsubj
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanished	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, it fell in the snow, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 snow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	it			the snow and mate			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location

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