Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

bro, what was the music like over there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: music

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 music	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 music	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 music	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 music	det
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bro	appos
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 there	case
8	over	over	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 music	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the music					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

tiresome, like one song on repeat for the whole night long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 song	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 song	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 song	nummod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tiresome	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 repeat	case
7	repeat	repeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 night	case
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 song	nmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 night	advmod

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

Option 2

boring, like a dull old song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 song	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 song	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 song	amod
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

tiresome, like a whole band playing wrong notes forever and ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 band	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 band	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 band	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 band	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 band	amod
6	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 band	acl
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 notes	amod
9	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 playing	obj
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 playing	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ever	cc
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 forever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	a tiresome whole band not said here	wrong notes				forever property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

tiresome, like one song on repeat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 song	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 song	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 song	nummod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tiresome	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 repeat	case
7	repeat	repeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 song	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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