Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerk · What happens: gut, do, say, fancy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fancy	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fancy	aux
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fancy	xcomp
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	10 fancy	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
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 clause=Topic
4	fancy	would	clerk	instead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 poet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 poet	det
2	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a happy little lark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lark	det
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lark	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lark	amod
4	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a royal courtier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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