Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

how long did he wait for a new shadow to show up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: wait, show up

This is test 8 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wait	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 shadow	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shadow	amod
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 show	mark
11	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wait	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 show	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · do-support	he					for a new shadow; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show up	to-infinitive	he not said here						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

eight days, then three weeks of waiting in the heat

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeks	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 weeks	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weeks	nummod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	acl:relcl
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 waiting	mark
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 weeks	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	three weeks not said here			the heat			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heat=Location

Option 2

five days, then three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeks	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 weeks	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weeks	nummod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

eight days, then three weeks

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeks	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 weeks	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weeks	nummod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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

Option 4

seven days, then two weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weeks	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 weeks	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 weeks	nummod
6	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj

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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