Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…
did the new shadow get bigger on the trip home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new shadow · What happens: get
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shadow | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shadow | amod |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trip | det |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bigger | obl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 trip | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the new shadow | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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
nope, it just stayed right there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | it | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
nah, it shrank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 shrank | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shrank | nsubj |
| 4 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | past | it | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
nope, same size
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 3 same | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 size | amod |
| 4 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yep, it got super long and huge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 huge | cc |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 long | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | it | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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