Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam · What happens: do, use, catch · To what, where: sailor boy, boy

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	nsubj
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	1 Fam	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	compound
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 use	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Fam	the sailor boy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality
2	use	present	Fam		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	to-infinitive	Fam not said here	boy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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

a sailor's big woollen cap from the ship

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	6 cap	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sailor	case
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cap	amod
5	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cap	amod
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 ship	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ship	det
9	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cap	nmod

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

Option 2

a sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the big red cap of the schoolboy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cap	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cap	amod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cap	amod
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 schoolboy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 schoolboy	det
7	schoolboy	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cap	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his big cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cap	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cap	amod
3	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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