Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

fr, what did the shadow say was wrong with his shadow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr, shadow · What happens: do, say, be, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	fr	fr	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 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 shadow	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shadow	nmod:poss
12	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrong	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the shadow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		with shadow's shadow; wrong property	tree rules
4	shadow		shadow		nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He had gone 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 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gone	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	He					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He was lost

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 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		He					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

He had wandered off and abandoned his master completely

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 wandered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	aux
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 wandered	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 abandoned	cc
6	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abandoned	obj
9	completely	completely	ADV	_	6 abandoned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past · perfect	He						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	abandon	past	He not said here	his master				completely property	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme master=Source

Option 4

He had been stolen

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	4 stolen	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stolen	aux:pass
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past · perfect · passive		He					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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