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title: Yo, what stopped his wife from vanishing? — Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Beca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what stopped his wife from vanishing? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

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Yo, what stopped his wife from vanishing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** stop, vanish · **To what, where:** wife

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1233-pg3282-part34/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t2:1
# text = Yo, what stopped his wife from vanishing?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past |  | his wife |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wife=Eventuality |
| 2 | **vanish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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a thorn in her shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t2:o1:1
# text = a thorn in her shoe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a nail in the threshold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t2:o2:1
# text = a nail in the threshold
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a spell cast by the old miller's wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t2:o3:1
# text = a spell cast by the old miller's wife
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cast** | participle |  | a spell *not said here* |  |  |  | by the old miller's wife | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by wife=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
her husband calling her name from inside the house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1233-pg3282-part34:t2:o4:1
# text = her husband calling her name from inside the house
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund | her husband | her name |  | the house |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent name=Theme from house=Source |
| 2 | **name** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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