Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…
What did the shadow advise the learned man to seek, owing to his declining health?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: advise, learn, seek, owe, decline · To what, where: learned man, declining health
This is exam question 4 of lesson 972 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how it became a man, then invites the scholar on a journey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 advise | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advise | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shadow | det |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advise | nsubj |
| 5 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 advise | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seek | mark |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 owing | punct |
| 12 | owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seek | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 health | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 health | nmod:poss |
| 15 | declining | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 health | amod |
| 16 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 owing | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 advise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past · do-support | the shadow | the learned man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the shadow not said here | the learned man not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | owe | gerund | to shadow's declining health goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to health=Goal | |||||
| 5 | decline | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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
A quiet rest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rest | amod |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A visit to a watering-place
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 visit | det |
| 2 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 5 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 watering | punct |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visit | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A trip to a healing spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trip | det |
| 2 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spring | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spring | det |
| 5 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spring | compound |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trip | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A stay at a seaside town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stay | det |
| 2 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | seaside | seaside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 town | compound |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stay | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/e4/