Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees…

Why is the moon so creepy, like what is up with its face?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moon · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 794 «Andersen's Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 5: Anne Lisbeth sees a ghostly child and digs a grave by the sea before dawn» 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	6 creepy	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creepy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creepy	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 creepy	advmod
6	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 up	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 up	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 up	cop
11	up	up	ADV	_	6 creepy	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 face	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 up	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 creepy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moon					creepy property	tree rules
2	is	present						with moon's face; up property	tree rules

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

It looks pale and rayless, like a dead thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rayless	cc
5	rayless	rayless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pale	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 thing	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					pale property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It is red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 red	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 red	cop
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It looks round and bright, like a glowing lamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 looks	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bright	cc
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 round	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lamp	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 lamp	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lamp	det
9	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 lamp	amod
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					like a glowing lamp; round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It glares down, sharp and white, like a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glares	nsubj
2	glares	glare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 glares	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sharp	punct
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glares	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 white	cc
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sharp	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knife	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 knife	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knife	det
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glares	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glare down	present	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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