Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Bruv, what did the theatre boss reckon about his plays?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: theatre boss, boss · What happens: reckon, play

This is test 2 · ★ 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	8 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boss	det
6	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boss	compound
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 plays	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plays	nmod:poss
11	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reckon	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the theatre boss					about boss's plays; Bruv vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	play		boss						nom play «communication 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

praised both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 praised	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past		both					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme

Option 2

loved them both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 loved	obj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past		them = they					tree rules

Option 3

asked for rewrites of both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 rewrites	case
3	rewrites	rewrite	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 asked	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 both	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 rewrites	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past						for rewrites of both	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

flatly refused both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flatly	flatly	ADV	_	2 refused	advmod
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 refused	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past		both				flatly property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=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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