--- title: What did the soldier say the shoes were, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the soldier say the shoes were, like? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red… What did the soldier say the shoes were, like? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t4:1 # text = What did the soldier say the shoes were, like? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the soldier | the shoes | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme shoe=Manner | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} dancing shoes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t4:o1:1 # text = dancing shoes 1 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dance** | gerund | | shoes | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} wonderful dancing shoes for ever ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t4:o2:1 # text = wonderful dancing shoes for ever 1 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} beautiful red shoes that made her dance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t4:o3:1 # text = beautiful red shoes that made her dance 1 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | beautiful red shoes | her dance | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material dance=Product | | 2 | **dance** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} magic slippers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t4:o4:1 # text = magic slippers 1 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 slippers slipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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