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title: Who's the Poesy lady the shadow keeps going on about? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the Poesy lady the shadow keeps going on about? Test 8 · ★ 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 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

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Who's the Poesy lady the shadow keeps going on about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Poesy lady · **What happens:** be, keep, go on · **To what, where:** Poesy lady

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t8:1
# text = Who's the Poesy lady the shadow keeps going on about?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Poesy	poesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Poesy lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the Poesy lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | gerund | the Poesy lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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A charming being who lived opposite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t8:o1:1
# text = A charming being who lived opposite
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | a charming |  |  |  |  | live *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The cake woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t8:o2:1
# text = The cake woman
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A lovely person who lived nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t8:o3:1
# text = A lovely person who lived nearby
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a lovely person |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A young lady who lived down the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t8:o4:1
# text = A young lady who lived down the road
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live down** | past | a young lady | the road |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme road=Location |

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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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