Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: schoolboys, learning

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 schoolboys	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 class	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 schoolboys	cop
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 schoolboys	det
7	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	really	really	ADV	_	11 learning	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 learning	case
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 learning	case
11	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 schoolboys	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 schoolboys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and which class	that schoolboys		learning			tree rules

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

the lowest class of the grammar school, where they sat at the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 class	amod
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 school	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 school	det
6	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 school	compound
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 class	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 sat	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 back	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the lowest class of the grammar school			the back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the lowest class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 class	amod
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the lowest class, though they were clever at reading poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 class	amod
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clever	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 clever	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 clever	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 clever	cop
8	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 class	conj
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 reading	mark
10	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 clever	advcl
11	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					clever property	tree rules
2	read	gerund	they not said here	poetry					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Topic

Option 4

the highest class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
2	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 class	amod
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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