Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…

what colour were the shoes the shoemaker's wife made?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be, make · To what, where: wife

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wife	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shoemaker	det
7	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 shoemaker	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wife	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	what colour	the shoemaker's wife					tree rules
2	make	participle		the shoemaker's wife not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

blue, from old bits of wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bits	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bits	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wool	case
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	nmod

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

Option 2

red and gold, from old bits of cloth and ribbon from the market stall

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bits	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 gold	cc
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 red	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bits	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 bits	case
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bits	amod
7	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bits	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ribbon	cc
11	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 stall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stall	det
14	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stall	compound
15	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ribbon	nmod

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

Option 3

red, from old bits of cloth she found in the attic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bits	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bits	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 found	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 cloth	case
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	nmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 attic	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 attic	det
12	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	red old bits of cloth			the attic			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

red, from old bits of cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bits	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bits	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bits	amod
5	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 cloth	case
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bits	nmod

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

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