Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

lowkey, why did the princess want the mad shadow gone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, princess, mad shadow · What happens: do, want, go

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
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 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shadow	amod
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	nsubj
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 want	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey	tree rules
2	want	present	the princess	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	participle	the mad shadow	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

She feared his rumors spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rumors	nmod:poss
4	rumors	rumor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
5	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feared	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	fear	past	She	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	spread	present	his rumors	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rumor		his = he	nom rumor «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was cruel

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	3 cruel	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cruel	cop
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					cruel property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She thought it was policy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 policy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 policy	cop
5	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	policy					tree rules

Option 4

He was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					mad property	tree rules

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