Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Innit wild, who snatched him with his own cap?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: innit, snatch · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Innit	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 snatched	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 snatched	nsubj
5	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snatched	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 cap	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cap	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cap	amod
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snatched	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here					wild property	tree rules
2	snatch	past		him = he				with his own cap	vn obtain-13.5.2 «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

a cabin boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the schoolboy who had a big cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 schoolboy	det
2	schoolboy	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 schoolboy	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cap	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cap	amod
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the schoolboy	a big cap					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Patient

Option 3

a cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sailor boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	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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