Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

Honestly, what does the shadow say he knows?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, say, know · To what, where: shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 does	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knows	nsubj
9	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		the shadow	honestly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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

That he knows nothing of the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knows	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 knows	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	That	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 2

That he has seen all the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seen	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 town	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	That	all town					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus

Option 3

That he has seen and known everything there is, and that he understood it all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seen	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 known	cc
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seen	conj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 known	obj
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 everything	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 understood	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 understood	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understood	nsubj
14	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 understood	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	That			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	participle	That not said here	everything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	be	present			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	understand	past	he	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That he has seen and known everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 seen	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 known	cc
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seen	conj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 known	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	That						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	participle	That not said here	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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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