Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53:…

lowkey the goloshes are wild, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey goloshes · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 842 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 53: the clerk wakes at his table; the student's goloshes carry him to Italy» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 goloshes	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goloshes	det
3	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wild	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wild	cop
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wild	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wild	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lowkey goloshes					wild property	tree rules

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

they were too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					big property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they fit him nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fit	nsubj
2	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fit	obj
4	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	2 fit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	they	him = he				nicely property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they carried him far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 carried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	they	him = he				far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

they were magic and took him to Switzerland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 magic	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	cop
3	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 took	cc
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 magic	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Switzerland	case
8	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					magic property	tree rules
2	take	past	they not said here	him = he	Switzerland				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to switzerland=Destination

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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