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title: so the knock at the door, who was it? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the knock at the door, who was it? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shad…

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so the knock at the door, who was it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** knock · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** door

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 303 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 30: the lost shadow comes back as a rich, fine gentleman» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/303-pg1597-part30/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t10:1
# text = so the knock at the door, who was it?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the knock at the door | door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t10:o1:1
# text = a super skinny guy in fancy clothes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes and fancy shoes too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t10:o2:1
# text = a super skinny guy in fancy clothes and fancy shoes too
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a super skinny guy in fancy clothes who said he was the man's shadow

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t10:o3:1
# text = a super skinny guy in fancy clothes who said he was the man's shadow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a super skinny guy in fancy clothes |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | guy | the man's shadow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a round guy in plain clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:303-pg1597-part30:t10:o4:1
# text = a round guy in plain clothes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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