Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10:…

ok real talk, was the clerk a copying-clerk at the end?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ok real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: clerk

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 283 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 10: the clerk becomes a bird, escapes back home, and the galoshes whisk the young Divine off to Switzerland» 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	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 talk	amod
3	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clerk	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 talk	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 clerk	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerk	det
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 clerk	det
9	copying	copying	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clerk	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 copying	punct
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clerk	appos
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 end	det
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clerk	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 clerk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ok real talk	the clerk					tree rules

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

yes, at his old desk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 desk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 desk	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 desk	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 desk	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 desk	amod
6	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, back at his table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 back	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 table	nmod:poss
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 back	obl

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

Option 3

yes, back at his table, writing as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 table	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 table	punct
3	back	back	ADV	_	6 table	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 table	nmod:poss
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 writing	punct
8	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 table	acl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 before	advmod
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 writing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund	his table not said here					before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

no, he stayed a lark and flew far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lark	det
6	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flew	cc
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	a lark					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lark=Location
2	fly	past	he not said here					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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