Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

ok but be real, what do the shepherdess and the sweep look like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do, look · To what, where: shepherdess

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 real	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 real	cc
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 look	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shepherdess	det
9	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sweep	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sweep	det
12	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shepherdess	conj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
14	like	like	ADP	_	13 look	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		real property	tree rules
2	do	present		the shepherdess and the sweep		tree rules
3	look	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Both are painted clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 clay	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 painted	aux:pass
3	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 clay	amod
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»

Option 2

Both are fine china figures with gilt and painted faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 figures	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 figures	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 figures	amod
4	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figures	compound
5	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 gilt	case
7	gilt	gilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 figures	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 faces	cc
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 faces	amod
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 figures	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Both	fine china figures and painted faces				with gilt	tree rules
2	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Both are china figures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 figures	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 figures	cop
3	china	china	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 figures	amod
4	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Both	china figures					tree rules

Option 4

Both are made of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Both				of wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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