Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

Lowkey, what did the lieutenant wish for when he was tiny?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: do, be · To what, where: lieutenant wish

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wish	det
6	lieutenant	lieutenant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wish	amod
7	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 tiny	mark
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 tiny	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tiny	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tiny	cop
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Lowkey	the lieutenant wish					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality
2	is	past	Lowkey					tiny property	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

To be rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 rich	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						rich property	tree rules

Option 2

To be posh, like a proper lord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 posh	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 posh	cop
3	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lord	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 lord	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lord	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lord	amod
8	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 posh	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						posh property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To be rich, like really rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 rich	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 rich	cop
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rich	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 rich	case
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 rich	advmod
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rich	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						rich property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4

To be tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 tall	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive						tall property	tree rules

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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