Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…
yo bro, what even are the Shoes of Fortune?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: be · To what, where: Shoes
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» 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 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 2 bro | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shoes | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 Shoes | nsubj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 Shoes | advmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Shoes | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Shoes | det |
| 8 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bro | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fortune | case |
| 10 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Shoes | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | yo's bro | the Shoes | of Fortune | 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
old shoes that carry the owner anywhere he wishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shoes | amod |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wishes | obl |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owner | det |
| 6 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 carry | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wishes | nsubj |
| 9 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | old shoes | the owner | anywhere property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Theme | |||
| 2 | wish | present | he | old shoes | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
enchanted shoes that grow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 shoes | amod |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shoes | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | grow | present | enchanted shoes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
magic shoes that shrink you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shoes | compound |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 shrink | nsubj |
| 4 | shrink | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 shrink | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | present | magic shoes | you | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
shoes that make you rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | shoes | you | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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