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title: Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was? — Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was? Test 9 · ★ 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 pragm
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 9: the clerk…

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Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sailor boy, clerk · **What happens:** be, rant

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t9:1
# text = Ngl, what did the sailor-boy reckon the clerk's rant was?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	rant	rant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | the sailor boy |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative*; reckon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rant** |  | the clerk |  |  |  |  |  | nom rant «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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 mere Pippi-pi of a foolish drunken clerk ranting at the quay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t9:o1:1
# text = a mere Pippi-pi of a foolish drunken clerk ranting at the quay
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Pippi	Pippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	drunken	drunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	ranting	rant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quay	quay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rant** *speech: other* | gerund | a foolish drunken clerk *not said here* |  |  | the quay |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t9:o2:1
# text = a joke
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t9:o3:1
# text = a song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a mere Pippi-pi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:282-pg1597-part9:t9:o4:1
# text = a mere Pippi-pi
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Pippi	Pippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pi	pi	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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