Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Like, when did his shadow stretch out long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow, his · What happens: stretch out, shadow

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 stretch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 stretch	mark
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stretch	aux
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shadow	nmod:poss
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stretch	nsubj
7	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 stretch	compound:prt
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stretch	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 stretch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past · do-support	his shadow					long property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	shadow		his = he						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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

At dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dusk	case
2	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

When the lights came on

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 lights	det
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	the lights						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

When the sun went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sun					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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