Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…
Bro, what did the sailor-boy chuck over the bird?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: boy chuck
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | 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 | 9 chuck | det |
| 6 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boy | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailor | punct |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chuck | compound |
| 9 | chuck | chuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the boy chuck | over the bird; Bro vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality |
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
a wool scarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scarf | det |
| 2 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scarf | compound |
| 3 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a sailor's hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sailor | case |
| 4 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a big oil-skin cap that had belonged to his father
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cap | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cap | amod |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 oil | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cap | compound |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 belonged | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 belonged | aux |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 cap | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past · perfect | a big skin cap | to his father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a big oil-skin cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cap | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cap | amod |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 oil | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cap | compound |
| 6 | cap | cap | 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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