Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Wait, what did he use to make peep-holes, sick trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, use, make · To what, where: peep holes

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	6 use	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 use	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 use	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 use	nsubj
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 use	advcl
9	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holes	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 peep	punct
11	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trick	punct
13	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trick	amod
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holes	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past · do-support	he		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	he not said here	peep holes and sick trick	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product

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

a cold silver coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a heated brass button

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 button	det
2	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 button	amod
3	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 button	compound
4	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

a hot spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoon	amod
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a heated copper coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
2	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 coin	amod
3	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coin	compound
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	participle							vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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