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description: What did the shadow advise the learned man to seek, owing to his declining health? Exam question 4 of lesson 972 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how it became a man, then invites the scholar on a journey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

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What did the shadow advise the learned man to seek, owing to his declining health?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** shadow · **What happens:** advise, learn, seek, owe, decline · **To what, where:** learned man, declining health

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 972 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how it became a man, then invites the scholar on a journey» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/972-pg27200-part183/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:e4:1
# text = What did the shadow advise the learned man to seek, owing to his declining health?
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	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	declining	decline	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the shadow | the learned man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the shadow *not said here* | the learned man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **owe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to shadow's declining health *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to health=Goal |
| 5 | **decline** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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A quiet rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:e4:o1:1
# text = A quiet rest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A visit to a watering-place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:e4:o2:1
# text = A visit to a watering-place
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	watering	watering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A trip to a healing spring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:e4:o3:1
# text = A trip to a healing spring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A stay at a seaside town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:e4:o4:1
# text = A stay at a seaside town
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	seaside	seaside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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