Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…
so the knock at the door, who was it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: knock · What happens: be · To what, where: door
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 knock | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knock | det |
| 3 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knock | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 it | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 it | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knock | acl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 knock | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the knock at the door | door | tree rules |
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
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guy | det |
| 2 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | amod |
| 3 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guy | compound |
| 4 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 guy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes and fancy shoes too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guy | det |
| 2 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | amod |
| 3 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guy | compound |
| 4 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 guy | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shoes | cc |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoes | amod |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 guy | conj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 guy | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes who said he was the man's shadow
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 guy | det |
| 2 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 guy | amod |
| 3 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guy | compound |
| 4 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 guy | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shadow | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shadow | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 man | case |
| 15 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a super skinny guy in fancy clothes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | guy | the man's shadow | tree rules |
Option 4
a round guy in plain clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guy | det |
| 2 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 clothes | case |
| 5 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 guy | nmod |
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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