---
title: Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/282-pg1597-part9/t1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/282-pg1597-part9/) / t1

# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** actual job, clerk · **What happens:** be, innit, job

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 282 «Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys» 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/282-pg1597-part9/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t1:1
# text = Yo, so what was the clerk's actual job, innit?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	actual	actual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the clerk's actual job |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **job** |  | the clerk |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
copying-clerk at the courthouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t1:o1:1
# text = copying-clerk at the courthouse
1	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	courthouse	courthouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a clerk who copies plays for the theatre at the royal court

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t1:o2:1
# text = a clerk who copies plays for the theatre at the royal court
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	copies	copy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	plays	play	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | a clerk | plays |  | the royal court |  | for the theatre | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent play=Theme at court=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
copying-clerk at the police-office, writing out reports all day long

<!-- fold The tree, 12 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t1:o3:1
# text = copying-clerk at the police-office, writing out reports all day long
1	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write out** | gerund |  | reports |  |  | day |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
copying-clerk at the police-office

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t1:o4:1
# text = copying-clerk at the police-office
1	copying	copying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of F…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/281-pg1597-part8/e4/)
- next →: [Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune…, test 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/282-pg1597-part9/t2/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk dreams he is a lark, is caught by a sailor-boy and is sold to two schoolboys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/282-pg1597-part9/)