Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…
Who's the Poesy lady the shadow keeps going on about?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Poesy lady · What happens: be, keep, go on · To what, where: Poesy lady
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lady | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 4 | Poesy | poesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | compound |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shadow | det |
| 7 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 keeps | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 going | compound:prt |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Poesy lady | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | the Poesy lady | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go on | gerund | the Poesy lady not said here | about property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
A charming being who lived opposite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 charming | det |
| 2 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lived | cop |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | a charming | live property | tree rules |
Option 2
The cake woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | compound |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A lovely person who lived nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 6 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a lovely person | nearby property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A young lady who lived down the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lady | acl:relcl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 lived | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live down | past | a young lady | the road | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme road=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/304-pg1597-part31/t8/