Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red…

Why couldn't she stop dancing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: not stop, dance

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stop	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	could	she						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	dance	gerund	she not said here					mate vocative	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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

the shoes had power

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the shoes	power					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 2

her feet were bewitched by the old soldier's words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bewitched	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bewitched	aux:pass
4	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	10 words	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 soldier	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 soldier	amod
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 words	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 soldier	case
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bewitched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bewitch	past · passive	the old soldier's words	her feet					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	word		the old soldier						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

the shoes were red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 red	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shoes					red property	tree rules

Option 4

the shoes had a magic power over her feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoes	det
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 power	det
5	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 power	compound
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the shoes	a magic power		her feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

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