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

Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailor boy, clerk · What happens: be, rant

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boy	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sailor	punct
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	nsubj
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 clerk	det
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rant	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 clerk	case
13	rant	rant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reckon	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reckon	cop
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · do-support	the sailor boy					Ngl vocative; reckon property	tree rules
2	rant		the clerk						nom rant «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

a mere Pippi-pi of a foolish drunken clerk ranting at the quay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mere	det
2	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pi	nsubj
3	Pippi	Pippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pi	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Pippi	punct
5	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 clerk	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clerk	det
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clerk	amod
9	drunken	drunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clerk	amod
10	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pi	nmod
11	ranting	rant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 clerk	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 quay	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 quay	det
14	quay	quay	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ranting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rant speech: other	gerund	a foolish drunken clerk not said here			the quay			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a song

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a mere Pippi-pi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mere	det
2	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pi	compound
3	Pippi	Pippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 mere	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Pippi	punct
5	pi	pi	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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