Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

the man said "Hem! hem!" to his shadow, did it work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, shadow · What happens: say, work, shadow · To what, where: Hem, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
5	Hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
7	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Hem	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hem	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shadow	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shadow	nmod:poss
12	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 work	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 work	aux
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 work	nsubj
16	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the man	Hem and hem	man's shadow	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hem=Topic to shadow=Recipient
2	work	past · do-support	shadow			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shadow		man			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

yeah, it nodded but stayed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 nodded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nodded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	it						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nope, it was no use at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	no use		all			tree rules

Option 3

yep, it worked fine and the shadow came straight back to him at once

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worked	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 back	advmod
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					fine property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the shadow		him = he				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location

Option 4

nope, it was no use at all and the shadow only laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 use	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 use	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shadow	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 all	conj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	no use		all			tree rules
2	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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