Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…
Lol, who bought him for eightpence?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: buy · To what, where: him
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 bought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bought | iobj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 eightpence | case |
| 7 | eightpence | eightpence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | him = he | for eightpence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for eightpence=Beneficiary |
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
the lady of the house and her two sons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sons | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sons | nummod |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lady | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
two schoolboys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 schoolboys | nummod |
| 2 | schoolboys | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a passing sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sailor | det |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sailor | amod |
| 3 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
a poor farmer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | 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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