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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and…

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the table just vanished every time, that's actually a whole banger of a trick, fr

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** table, that · **What happens:** vanish, be · **To what, where:** whole banger

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1921 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, part 58: the sisters spy on the goat's magic table, and the mother kills the goat» 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/1921-pg7277-part58/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1921-pg7277-part58:t9:1
# text = the table just vanished every time, that's actually a whole banger of a trick, fr
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	banger	banger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | the table |  |  |  | time |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | a whole banger and fr |  |  |  | of a trick; actually *property* | tree rules |

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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 knife chopped it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1921-pg7277-part58:t9:o1:1
# text = A knife chopped it up
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop up** | past | a knife | it |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument it=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The sister took it away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1921-pg7277-part58:t9:o2:1
# text = The sister took it away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past | the sister | it |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her sister's magic words always made it disappear again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1921-pg7277-part58:t9:o3:1
# text = Her sister's magic words always made it disappear again
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Her sister's magic words | it |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disappear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | Her sister |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Magic words made it go away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1921-pg7277-part58:t9:o4:1
# text = Magic words made it go away
1	Magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Magic words | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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