Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…
wait, the clerk put them on by accident, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, clerk · What happens: wait, put on · To what, where: them
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clerk | det |
| 4 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | 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 | put on | past | the clerk | them = they | by accident | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme by accident=Destination |
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
yep, he took the dry one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | the dry one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
Option 2
yep, he grabbed the wet pair and left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grabbed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | the wet pair | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | he not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yep, he grabbed the wet pair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pair | amod |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | he | the wet pair | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
Option 4
no, he took the boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boots | det |
| 6 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | he | the boots | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme |
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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