--- title: Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics description: Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip? Test 8 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/t8/) [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 Shadow, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/972-pg27200-part183/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t… Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boss, Real talk · **What happens:** start off, be · **To what, where:** boss, trip This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:t8:1 # text = Real talk, who started off being the boss on the trip? 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 csubj _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start off** | past | the boss | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | gerund | Real talk | the boss | | the trip | | | tree rules | 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} Shadow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:t8:o1:1 # text = Shadow 1 Shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The shadow, fr ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:t8:o2:1 # text = The shadow, fr 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shadow shadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The scholar, fr ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:t8:o3:1 # text = The scholar, fr 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scholar scholar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Him, fr ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:972-pg27200-part183:t8:o4:1 # text = Him, fr 1 Him him INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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