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title: dude, what did the watchman leave on the floor? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, what did the watchman leave on the floor? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a yo…

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dude, what did the watchman leave on the floor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** watchman · **What happens:** leave · **To what, where:** dude, floor

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 280 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 7: a young man wears the Shoes and gets stuck in the railings» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/280-pg1597-part7/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t2:1
# text = dude, what did the watchman leave on the floor?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · do-support | the watchman | dude |  | the floor |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Theme on floor=Location |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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the galoshes he left by the door, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t2:o1:1
# text = the galoshes he left by the door, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the galoshes |  |  |  |  | by the door and bro | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
his umbrella, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t2:o2:1
# text = his umbrella, bro
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the galoshes, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t2:o3:1
# text = the galoshes, bro
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like the old galoshes from the hallway, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:280-pg1597-part7:t2:o4:1
# text = like the old galoshes from the hallway, bro
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hallway	hallway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

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**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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