Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

When the goloshes came off, what did the soul do, like, instantly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goloshes, soul · What happens: come off, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goloshes	det
3	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 did	advcl
5	off	off	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soul	det
10	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 did	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	INTJ	_	11 do	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 instantly	punct
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	8 did	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come off	past	the goloshes	off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	present	the soul		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Raced straight back down to the sleeping body lying in the watchbox at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raced	race	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	4 down	advmod
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Raced	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	compound
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raced	obl
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 body	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 watchbox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 watchbox	det
12	watchbox	watchbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 dawn	case
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	participle				the sleeping body		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to body=Destination
2	lie	gerund	the sleeping body not said here			the watchbox	dawn		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in watchbox=Location

Option 2

Floated off over the rooftops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Floated	compound:prt
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 rooftops	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rooftops	det
5	rooftops	rooftop	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float off	participle				the rooftops			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rooftop=Trajectory

Option 3

Shot back into the body as soon as the goloshes were pulled off and dropped

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shot	shot	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Shot	advmod
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 body	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shot	obl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 pulled	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 pulled	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goloshes	det
10	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pulled	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pulled	aux:pass
12	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Shot	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 pulled	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dropped	cc
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pulled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shot back	imperative	you not said here		the body		tree rules
2	pull off	past · passive		the goloshes		soon property	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	drop	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Raced straight back to the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raced	race	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 back	advmod
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Raced	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 body	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 body	det
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Raced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	participle				the body			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to body=Destination

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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