Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Wait, what did the clerk say about nicking birds in the royal gardens?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, clerk · What happens: wait, do, say, nick · To what, where: birds, royal gardens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 nicking	mark
9	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 say	advcl
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nicking	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 gardens	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gardens	det
13	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gardens	amod
14	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nicking	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the clerk			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	nick	gerund	the clerk not said here	birds	the royal gardens	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

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

strictly forbidden by the royal gardeners and the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	2 forbidden	advmod
2	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 gardeners	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gardeners	det
5	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gardeners	amod
6	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forbidden	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 police	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 police	det
9	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gardeners	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	participle						by the royal gardeners and the police; strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 2

quite forbidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	quite	quite	ADV	_	2 forbidden	advmod
2	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

strictly forbidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	2 forbidden	advmod
2	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	participle						strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

strictly forbidden, and any boy caught doing it would be fined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	2 forbidden	advmod
2	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fined	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 caught	cc
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forbidden	conj
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 caught	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doing	obj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fined	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fined	aux:pass
12	fined	fine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forbid	participle			strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	catch	past	any boy			tree rules
3	do	gerund	any boy not said here	it		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	fine	would · passive				vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»

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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