Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

What did the shadow do upon entering the opposite house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: do, enter · To what, where: opposite house

This is exam question 2 of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 entering	mark
7	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 do	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entering	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the shadow		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	enter	gerund	the shadow not said here	the opposite house	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination

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

It went in quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	It					quietly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It crept up the stairs quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	5 stairs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stairs	det
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crept	obl
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	It	the stairs				quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stair=Theme

Option 3

It slipped through the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	past	It			the gate			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It passed through the half-open balcony door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	9 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 open	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 half	punct
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 door	amod
8	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	compound
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	It			the open balcony door			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location

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