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title: bro, if the clerk became a poet, what did he say about the verses? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro, if the clerk became a poet, what did he say about the verses? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the…

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bro, if the clerk became a poet, what did he say about the verses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clerk · **What happens:** become, say · **To what, where:** poet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 281 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 8: the man tours the hearts, then the clerk takes the galoshes» 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/281-pg1597-part8/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:t11:1
# text = bro, if the clerk became a poet, what did he say about the verses?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the clerk | a poet |  |  |  | bro *vocative* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | clerk | a poet |  |  |  | about the verses | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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he'd write dreadful poems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:t11:o1:1
# text = he'd write dreadful poems
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | would | he | dreadful poems |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he'd write some happy verses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:t11:o2:1
# text = he'd write some happy verses
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | would | he | some happy verses |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd write no miserable verses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:t11:o3:1
# text = he'd write no miserable verses
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | would | he | no miserable verses |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
he'd never write any miserable verses at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:281-pg1597-part8:t11:o4:1
# text = he'd never write any miserable verses at all
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **write** | would | he | any miserable verses |  | all |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |

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