Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Okay but what did the princess spot about him?

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

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 did	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spot	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spot	compound
7	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spot	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the princess spot				about him = he	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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 · ← Mova's choice

He had no shadow at all, bro, that was the weird part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 shadow	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shadow	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 part	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 part	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 part	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 part	det
13	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 part	amod
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shadow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no shadow and bro and the weird part		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient
2	is a	past	that	the weird part					tree rules

Option 2

He had no shadow on the ground, bro, like something was off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ground	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 something	case
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 off	cop
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 something	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no shadow		the ground and bro			tree rules

Option 3

He was a ghost, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ghost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ghost	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ghost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a ghost and bro					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had no shadow, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shadow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no shadow and bro					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient

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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