Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

What's the shadow's whole deal with climbing walls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole deal, shadow · What happens: be, deal

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 shadow	case
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 walls	case
9	climbing	climbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walls	compound
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deal	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shadow's whole deal with climbing walls						tree rules
2	deal		the shadow					with climbing walls	nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

He does it because the learned man ordered him to, and he dislikes it very much

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 does	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 ordered	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ordered	nsubj
8	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ordered	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	8 ordered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dislikes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dislikes	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dislikes	nsubj
14	dislikes	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dislikes	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	14 dislikes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	present	He	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	order	past	the learned man		him = he	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	dislike	present	man	it		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

He is bored of it, and so is Poesy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	aux:pass
3	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Poesy	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Poesy	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 Poesy	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Poesy	cop
10	Poesy	poesy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	present · passive		He				of it	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is a	present		Poesy					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It tickles his back and he loves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tickles	nsubj
2	tickles	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickles	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loves	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loves	nsubj
7	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tickles	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	present	It	his back					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer
2	love	present	he	back					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

It warms his back, and he likes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 likes	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 likes	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 likes	nsubj
8	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	It	his back					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient
2	like	present	he	back					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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