Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

bro, if the clerk became a poet, what did he say about the verses?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerk · What happens: become, say · To what, where: poet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 became	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clerk	det
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 poet	det
8	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 poet	acl:relcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 verses	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 verses	det
16	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the clerk	a poet				bro vocative	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	clerk	a poet				about the verses	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

he'd write dreadful poems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 poems	amod
5	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would	he	dreadful poems					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

Option 2

he'd write some happy verses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 verses	det
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 verses	amod
6	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would	he	some happy verses					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he'd write no miserable verses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 verses	det
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 verses	amod
6	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	would	he	no miserable verses					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he'd never write any miserable verses at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 write	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 write	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 write	advmod
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 verses	det
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 verses	amod
7	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 write	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not write	would	he	any miserable verses		all			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme

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