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title: Ngl, what does the shadow say he wears on his feet? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what does the shadow say he wears on his feet? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

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Ngl, what does the shadow say he wears on his feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** do, say, wear · **To what, where:** shadow, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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/304-pg1597-part31/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t4:1
# text = Ngl, what does the shadow say he wears on his feet?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Ngl | the shadow |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wear** | present | Ngl |  |  | Ngl's feet |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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}

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Patent leather boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t4:o1:1
# text = Patent leather boots
1	Patent	patent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Shiny patent leather boots with silver buckles on the sides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t4:o2:1
# text = Shiny patent leather boots with silver buckles on the sides
1	Shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	boots	boot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	buckles	buckle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boot** | present | Shiny patent leather |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **buckle** | present | silver |  |  |  |  | on the sides | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on side=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Black leather gloves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t4:o3:1
# text = Black leather gloves
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tall patent leather boots that reach up over his knees and were bought new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t4:o4:1
# text = Tall patent leather boots that reach up over his knees and were bought new
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	patent	patent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach up** | present | Tall patent leather boots |  |  | his knees |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over knee=Path |
| 2 | **buy** | past · passive | Tall patent leather boots *not said here* |  |  |  |  | new *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S» |

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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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