Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Wait, did the shadow tell him to go on a trip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shadow · What happens: wait, tell, go · To what, where: him, trip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 trip	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trip	det
12	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the shadow	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the shadow not said here		a trip	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

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

Yep, a watering place trip, the shadow said it was needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 trip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
4	watering	watering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trip	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trip	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shadow	det
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needed	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 needed	aux:pass
13	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the shadow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past · passive		shadow					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Nope, a mountain hike trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 trip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
4	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hike	compound
5	hike	hike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yep, it told him to go on a long watering place trip with it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 trip	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 trip	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trip	amod
11	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	compound
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trip	compound
13	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	it		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive				a long place trip with trip			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, a watering place trip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 trip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
4	watering	watering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trip	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trip	compound
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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