Test 9 · ★ · Light, shadows and colours

why's my shadow huge when i'm right by the torch

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shadow, i, my · What happens: be, shadow

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 53 «Light, shadows and colours» of the world 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 huge	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 huge	cop
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shadow	nmod:poss
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 huge	nsubj
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 right	advmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 right	cop
9	right	right	ADV	_	5 huge	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 torch	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 torch	det
12	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	my shadow	huge property	tree rules
2	is	present	i	by the torch; right property	tree rules
3	shadow		my		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

Shadows grow when it is cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 cold	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cold	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Shadows						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					cold property	tree rules

Option 2

Light bends around you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bends	nsubj
2	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 bends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present	Light					around you	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around you=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The torch makes you bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 torch	det
2	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the torch	you				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Closer to the light, you block more of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 light	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Closer	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Closer	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 block	nsubj
7	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Closer	parataxis
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Closer	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	you						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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