Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…

What did the clerk consider the poet's advantage over a clerk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerk · What happens: consider · To what, where: advantage, clerk

This is exam question 4 of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 consider	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consider	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consider	nsubj
5	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poet	det
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 advantage	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 poet	case
9	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consider	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 clerk	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clerk	det
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consider	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 consider	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past · do-support	the clerk	the poet's advantage		a clerk			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme advantage=Attribute

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 steady job at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
2	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 job	amod
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 job	nmod

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

Option 2

Higher pay at work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pay	amod
2	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 work	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Freedom to write poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 write	mark
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Freedom	acl
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive		poetry					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme

Option 4

Freedom to write poetry and to walk about the city all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	nsubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 write	mark
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive	Freedom	poetry					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Theme
2	walk	to-infinitive	Freedom not said here				day	about the city	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about city=Trajectory

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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