Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

How many days elapsed before the new shadow emerged?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: elapse, emerge · To what, where: many days

This is exam question 3 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 emerged	obl:unmarked
4	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 days	acl
5	before	before	ADP	_	8 shadow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shadow	amod
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 elapsed	obl:agent
9	emerged	emerge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 emerged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	elapse	participle		many days not said here					tree rules
2	emerge	participle					day		vn appear-48.1.1 «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

Two days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

A week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Nine days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eight days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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