Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

was Karen dead lazy or dead keen at work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Karen

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Karen	cop
2	Karen	Karen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keen	nsubj
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keen	amod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keen	amod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 dead	cc
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	conj
7	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keen	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Karen					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 · ← Mova's choice

dead bored and rather sulky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dead	conj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sulky	cc
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 sulky	advmod
5	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 dead	conj

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

Option 2

dead keen but also dead proud and always showing off to the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keen	amod
2	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 proud	cc
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 proud	advmod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proud	amod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keen	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 showing	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 showing	advmod
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 proud	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 showing	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund			the others			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient

Option 3

dead cross and always moaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cross	amod
2	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 moaning	cc
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 moaning	advmod
5	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	gerund						always property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dead keen and thoughtful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keen	amod
2	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 thoughtful	cc
4	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keen	conj

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

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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