Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

Wait, so Knud was like an apprentice shoemaker, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Knud · What happens: wait, be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shoemaker	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	9 shoemaker	advmod
4	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shoemaker	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shoemaker	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 shoemaker	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 shoemaker	det
8	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoemaker	compound
9	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Knud					like a apprentice shoemaker	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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he was stuck learning shoes all day with the old master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 shoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shoes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shoes	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoes	amod
6	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoes	compound
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoes	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 master	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 master	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 master	amod
13	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	stuck learning shoes and all day with the old master					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was stuck learning shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 shoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shoes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shoes	cop
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoes	amod
6	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shoes	compound
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	stuck learning shoes					tree rules

Option 3

yeah, he was learning to sew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 learning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	aux
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sew	mark
7	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learning	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · progressive	he						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sew	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

yeah, he fixed hats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fixed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fixed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fixed	nsubj
4	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fixed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past	he	hats					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hat=Patient

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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