Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

Dead, which bit of his kit became claws?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead · What happens: become · To what, where: claws

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kit	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kit	nmod:poss
7	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 became	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Dead	claws					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

his woollen scarf and the thick galoshes he wore in the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 scarf	nmod:poss
2	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scarf	amod
3	scarf	scarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 galoshes	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thick	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thick	det
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scarf	conj
7	galoshes	galosh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wore	nsubj
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 galoshes	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 rain	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rain	det
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	galosh	present	his woollen scarf						tree rules
2	wear	past	he			the rain			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the galoshes on his feet, which had been his pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 galoshes	det
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 galoshes	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pride	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 pride	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pride	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 pride	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pride	nmod:poss
11	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 galoshes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	the galoshes on his feet and his pride	his pride					tree rules

Option 3

the trousers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trousers	det
2	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the galoshes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 galoshes	det
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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