Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Bruv, which lot bought the stupid bird in the end?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lot · What happens: buy · To what, where: stupid bird, end

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bought	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	nsubj
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
7	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	which lot	the stupid bird			in the end	Bruv vocative	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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

three merchants of the middle class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 merchants	nummod
2	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 class	compound
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 merchants	nmod

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

Option 2

two schoolboys of the upper class who wanted it for their lessons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 schoolboys	nummod
2	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schoolboys	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 class	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 lessons	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lessons	nmod:poss
12	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the upper class	class				for schoolboys's lessons	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

two schoolboys of the upper class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 schoolboys	nummod
2	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schoolboys	nmod

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

Option 4

two schoolboys of the upper class from the grammar school on the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 schoolboys	nummod
2	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
5	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 class	amod
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schoolboys	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 school	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 school	det
9	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 school	compound
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 class	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hill	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hill	det
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 school	nmod

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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