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title: Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning? Test 12 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** schoolboys, learning

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t12:1
# text = Mate, which class were those schoolboys really in for learning?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mate and which class | that schoolboys |  | learning |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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the lowest class of the grammar school, where they sat at the back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t12:o1:1
# text = the lowest class of the grammar school, where they sat at the back
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the lowest class of the grammar school |  |  | the back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the lowest class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t12:o2:1
# text = the lowest class
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the lowest class, though they were clever at reading poetry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t12:o3:1
# text = the lowest class, though they were clever at reading poetry
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | they *not said here* | poetry |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poetry=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the highest class

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t12:o4:1
# text = the highest class
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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