Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow: the shadow wins the pr…

vibe check, what did the princess say the foreign guy's illness was?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: say, be · To what, where: vibe check · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	compound
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guy	det
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 guy	amod
11	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 illness	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 guy	case
13	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the princess	vibe check					vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme illness=Manner
2	be	past	the princess not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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

Not having a shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 having	advmod
2	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	gerund		a shadow					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not casting a shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 casting	advmod
2	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shadow	det
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 casting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cast	gerund		a shadow					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product

Option 3

Being too pale to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pale	cop
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 pale	advmod
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pale	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						pale property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Not being able to cast a shadow in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 able	advmod
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 able	cop
3	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cast	mark
5	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 able	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shadow	det
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	gerund						able property	tree rules
2	cast	to-infinitive		a shadow		the sun			vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme in sun=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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