Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

bro, what did the shadow threaten to do if the learned man talked?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow, learned man · What happens: threaten, do, learn, talk

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 threaten	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threaten	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threaten	nsubj
7	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 threaten	xcomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 talked	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 talked	nsubj
14	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 do	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 threaten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	threaten	past · do-support	the shadow	bro vocative	tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the shadow not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk a condition, not said to happen	participle	the learned man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Jail him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jail	jail	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Jail	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jail	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Have him hanged at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Have	obj
3	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Have	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hanged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	hange	participle	him = he not said here				dawn		tree rules

Option 3

Ruin him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruin	ruin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ruin	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Get him sent to prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obj
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Get	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 prison	case
5	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	send	participle	him = he not said here			prison			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to prison=Destination

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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