Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

Ngl, what does the shadow say he wears on his feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, say, wear · To what, where: shadow, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
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 wears	nsubj
9	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 feet	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 feet	nmod:poss
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wears	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	Ngl	the shadow		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Ngl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wear	present	Ngl		Ngl's feet	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

Patent leather boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Patent	patent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boots	amod
2	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boots	compound
3	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Shiny patent leather boots with silver buckles on the sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leather	amod
2	patent	patent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leather	compound
3	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boots	nsubj
4	boots	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 buckles	mark
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buckles	nsubj
7	buckles	buckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sides	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sides	det
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buckles	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boot	present	Shiny patent leather						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	buckle	present	silver					on the sides	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on side=Co-Patient

Option 3

Black leather gloves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gloves	amod
2	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gloves	compound
3	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Tall patent leather boots that reach up over his knees and were bought new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boots	amod
2	patent	patent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boots	amod
3	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boots	compound
4	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 reach	nsubj
6	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boots	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 reach	compound:prt
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 knees	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knees	nmod:poss
10	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reach	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bought	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bought	aux:pass
13	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reach	conj
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach up	present	Tall patent leather boots			his knees			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over knee=Path
2	buy	past · passive	Tall patent leather boots not said here					new property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»

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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