Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dan…

did the crippled soldier like her shoes or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: crippled soldier

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 957 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 168: Karen dances in her red shoes and cannot stop» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
3	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldier	amod
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 shoes	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nmod:poss
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soldier	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 shoes	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the crippled soldier					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Eventuality

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

yeah, said they were nice shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shoes	cop
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoes	amod
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	nice shoes					tree rules

Option 2

nah, said they were too bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bright	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bright	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 bright	advmod
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they					bright property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, said they were pretty dancing shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dancing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dancing	aux
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 dancing	advmod
7	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dancing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dance	past · progressive	they	shoes				pretty property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=Theme

Option 4

nah, too red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 red	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 red	advmod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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