Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Fam, why did the shadow want a beard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow · What happens: want · To what, where: beard

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 want	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beard	det
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past · do-support	the shadow	a beard				Fam vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot beard=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

It wanted a beard to look old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 beard	det
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It	a beard					tree rules
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	a beard not said here					old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It was not growing well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 growing	advmod
4	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	past · progressive	It					well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It wanted hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It	hair					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its beard was not growing right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 beard	nmod:poss
2	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 growing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 growing	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 growing	advmod
5	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 growing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	past · progressive	Its beard					right property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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