Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boss, Real talk · What happens: start off, be · To what, where: boss, trip

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boss	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boss	csubj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 started	compound:prt
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 boss	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boss	det
9	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 trip	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trip	det
12	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boss	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start off	past	the boss						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	gerund	Real talk	the boss		the trip			tree rules

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

Shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The shadow, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shadow	det
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fr	punct
4	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shadow	conj

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

Option 3

The scholar, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scholar	det
2	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fr	punct
4	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scholar	conj

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

Option 4

Him, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	him	INTJ	_	3 fr	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Him	punct
3	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

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