Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

Fr, where did they put the clerk's cage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: put · To what, where: cage

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 put	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clerk	det
8	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cage	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 clerk	case
10	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · do-support	Fr	the clerk's cage					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cage=Goal

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

beside the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 window	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

close to the canary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 canary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 canary	det
4	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here		the canary				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to canary=Recipient

Option 3

in the parlour right beside the canary's golden cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 parlour	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parlour	det
3	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	10 cage	advmod
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 cage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canary	det
7	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cage	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 canary	case
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cage	amod
10	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parlour	nmod

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

Option 4

close to the canary, under the window in the parlour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 canary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 canary	det
4	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 window	punct
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 parlour	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parlour	det
11	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here		the canary	the window		in the parlour	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent to canary=Recipient in parlour=Topic

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