Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

So what is the shadow actually doing in this bit, in one word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: be, do · To what, where: shadow, bit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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	_	5 shadow	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 shadow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shadow	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 doing	advmod
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shadow	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bit	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 word	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 word	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 word	nummod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shadow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the shadow					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the shadow not said here			this bit		in one word; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Bragging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bragging	bragging	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Showing off wildly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Showing	compound:prt
3	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	1 Showing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund						wildly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Exaggerating his own greatness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 greatness	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 greatness	amod
4	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exaggerating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	gerund		his own greatness					tree rules

Option 4

Scolding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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