Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

What did the soldier say the shoes were, like?

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

This is test 4 · ★ 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	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoes	det
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 like	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	7 shoes	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the soldier	the shoes					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme shoe=Manner

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 · ✓ the right answer

dancing shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dancing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund		shoes					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

wonderful dancing shoes for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoes	amod
2	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoes	compound
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 shoes	nmod

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

Option 3

beautiful red shoes that made her dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoes	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoes	amod
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dance	nmod:poss
7	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	beautiful red shoes	her dance					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dance=Product
2	dance		her = she						nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

magic slippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slippers	compound
2	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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