Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Did the lecturer just vanish or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, vanish · To what, where: lecturer

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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 lecturer	det
3	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 vanish	advmod
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 vanish	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the lecturer					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecturer=Eventuality
2	vanish	present							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he went to Copenhagen to teach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Copenhagen	case
6	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 teach	mark
8	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			Copenhagen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to copenhagen=Initial_Location
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, he got ill and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	past	he not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he disappeared like the old gods did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 disappeared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 disappeared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disappeared	nsubj
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 gods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gods	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gods	amod
8	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 disappeared	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	he						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past	the old gods						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he turned into a puppet-maker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 maker	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 maker	det
7	puppet	puppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maker	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 puppet	punct
9	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	he			a puppet maker			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into maker=Trajectory

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