Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

So what's a pepper gentleman, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: pepper gentleman

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 gentleman	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 gentleman	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gentleman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
5	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gentleman	compound
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 real	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gentleman	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gentleman	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a pepper gentleman					tree rules
2	be								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

An old unmarried clerk who must never wed in Copenhagen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clerk	amod
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clerk	amod
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wed	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 wed	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 wed	advmod
8	wed	wed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clerk	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Copenhagen	case
10	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wed	must	a old unmarried clerk			Copenhagen			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An old unmarried clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clerk	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clerk	amod
3	unmarried	unmarried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clerk	amod
4	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

An old clerk who lives in the booths and sells pepper all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clerk	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clerk	amod
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sells	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 clerk	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 booths	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 booths	det
8	booths	booth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lives	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lives	cc
10	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sells	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sells	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sells	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a old clerk			the booths			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in booth=Location
2	sell	present	a old clerk	pepper			day	long property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pepper=Theme

Option 4

A rich old merchant man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
4	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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