Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Was the scholar kinda salty when the shadow came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: scholar

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scholar	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 scholar	det
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salty	csubj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 salty	advmod
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shadow	det
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the scholar					tree rules
2	come back	past	the shadow						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 happy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, kinda

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 kinda	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, he was really mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 mad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mad	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was super sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sad	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					sad, super property	tree rules

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