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title: Did the scholar's shadow get proper tiny? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the scholar's shadow get proper tiny? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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 Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

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Did the scholar's shadow get proper tiny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** shadow, scholar · **What happens:** do, get, shadow

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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/970-pg27200-part181/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t8:1
# text = Did the scholar's shadow get proper tiny?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | the scholar's shadow |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **shadow** |  | the scholar |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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Nah, it stayed the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t8:o1:1
# text = Nah, it stayed the same
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | it |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, it shrivelled up to nothing at all in the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, it shrivelled up to nothing at all in the end
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrivell up** | past | it |  |  |  |  | to nothing | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, it went quite small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, it went quite small
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | it |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it shrivelled up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:970-pg27200-part181:t8:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it shrivelled up
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrivell up** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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