Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

yo, so the dude's shadow just bailed on him at night, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadow, dude · What happens: bail, shadow

This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	9 bailed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 bailed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dude	det
5	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shadow	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 dude	case
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bailed	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 bailed	advmod
9	bailed	bail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bailed	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bailed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 night	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bailed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bail	past	the dude's shadow				night	on him = he	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	shadow		the dude						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, it ghosted him straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ghosted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghosted	nsubj
4	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghosted	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 ghosted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	past	it	him = he					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 2

yep, it ghosted him straight up while he was snoring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ghosted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghosted	nsubj
4	ghosted	ghost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghosted	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 ghosted	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 snoring	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 snoring	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 snoring	aux
11	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ghosted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost	past	it	him = he					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
2	snore	past · progressive	he						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, it stayed glued to his feet the whole night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 glued	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 glued	nsubj:pass
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glued	aux:pass
5	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glued	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glued	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 glued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past · passive		it			night	to his feet; long property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient

Option 4

yep, it bounced at midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 bounced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bounced	nsubj
4	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midnight	case
6	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	past	it				midnight		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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