Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

bet, what did the guards do when the shadow told them?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bet, guards, shadow · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: guards · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 973 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the princess, the learned man is executed» 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	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
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	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	bet		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the guards		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the shadow	guards = guard	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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

They ignored him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	They	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

They bowed low and obeyed every order he gave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bowed	nsubj
2	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bowed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 obeyed	cc
5	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bowed	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 order	det
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obeyed	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 order	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bow	past	They		low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	obey	past	They not said here	every order		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	give	past	he	every order not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme

Option 3

They arrested him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrested	nsubj
2	arrested	arrest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrested	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	past	They	him = he					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They obeyed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obeyed	nsubj
2	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 obeyed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	They	him = he					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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