Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…
what excuse did he give the attendant, like, lowkey?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, give · To what, where: attendant
This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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 give | obj |
| 2 | excuse | excuse | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attendant | det |
| 7 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 give | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lowkey | punct |
| 11 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | give | past · do-support | he | the attendant | lowkey obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme |
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
"I am a doctor"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doctor | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 doctor | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doctor | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 doctor | det |
| 5 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doctor | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | I | a doctor | tree rules |
Option 2
"It was my own idea"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 idea | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 idea | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 idea | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 idea | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 idea | amod |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 idea | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | It | my own idea | tree rules |
Option 3
"Sorry"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
| 2 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sorry | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"It is for a wager"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wager | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wager | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wager | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 wager | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wager | det |
| 6 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wager | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | for a wager | tree rules |
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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