Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Yeah nah, what did the clerk shout at the boy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerk · What happens: shout

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 nah	discourse
2	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 shout	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shout	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 shout	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerk	det
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	nsubj
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shout	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	the clerk					at the boy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

"You impudent little rascal, how dare you touch me"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 touch	nsubj
3	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rascal	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rascal	amod
5	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touch	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 touch	advmod
8	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 touch	compound
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 touch	nsubj
10	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 touch	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 touch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch in a quote	present	You	me					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme

Option 2

"You impudent rascal, give me back my bird"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 rascal	nsubj
3	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rascal	amod
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rascal	punct
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	back	back	ADP	_	6 give	compound:prt
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bird	nmod:poss
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rascal in a quote		You						tree rules
2	give back in a quote	imperative	you not said here	my bird	me				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bird=Theme

Option 3

"You silly boy, stop"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 boy	nsubj
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boy in a quote		You						tree rules
2	stop in a quote	infinitive	silly boy						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"You impudent rascal"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rascal	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 rascal	nsubj
3	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rascal	amod
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rascal	punct

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

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