Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: actual job, clerk · What happens: be, innit, job

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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	yo	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerk	det
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 job	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 clerk	case
9	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 job	amod
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 what	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past	the clerk's actual job	tree rules
2	innit	infinitive		tree rules
3	job		the clerk	nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

copying-clerk at the courthouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clerk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 copying	punct
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 courthouse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 courthouse	det
6	courthouse	courthouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clerk	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a clerk who copies plays for the theatre at the royal court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 copies	nsubj
4	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clerk	acl:relcl
5	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copies	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 theatre	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 theatre	det
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 court	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 court	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 court	amod
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	a clerk	plays		the royal court		for the theatre	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent play=Theme at court=Destination

Option 3

copying-clerk at the police-office, writing out reports all day long

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clerk	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 clerk	punct
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 police	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clerk	nmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 office	punct
8	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 police	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 writing	punct
10	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 clerk	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 writing	compound:prt
12	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 writing	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writing	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 clerk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write out	gerund		reports			day		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

copying-clerk at the police-office

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clerk	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 copying	punct
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 police	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clerk	nmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 office	punct
8	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 police	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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