Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

What did the angel say she'd dance till?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: angel · What happens: do, say, dance · To what, where: till · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dance	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dance	aux
8	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the angel		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	dance	would	angel	till	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location till=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

till night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	till	till	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

pale and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cold	cc
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pale	conj

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

Option 3

tired and sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sore	cc
3	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 tired	conj

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

Option 4

until she was pale, cold and dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 pale	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pale	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pale	cop
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pale	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dead	cc
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	pale property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here		tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

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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