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title: Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragma
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clerk · **What happens:** gut, do, say, fancy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t5:1
# text = Gutted, what did the clerk say he'd fancy being instead?
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	xcomp	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the clerk |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fancy** | would | clerk |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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a poet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t5:o1:1
# text = a poet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t5:o2:1
# text = a crow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a happy little lark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t5:o3:1
# text = a happy little lark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a royal courtier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t5:o4:1
# text = a royal courtier
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	courtier	courtier	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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