--- title: Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him? — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics description: Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/t11/) [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 Goloshes of Fort…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/841-pg27200-part52/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl… Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fam · **What happens:** do, use, catch · **To what, where:** sailor boy, boy This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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/841-pg27200-part52/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t11:1 # text = Fam, what did the sailor boy use to catch him? 1 Fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 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 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Fam | the sailor boy | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality | | 2 | **use** | present | Fam | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Fam *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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} a sailor's big woollen cap from the ship ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t11:o1:1 # text = a sailor's big woollen cap from the ship 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 woollen woollen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a sack ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t11:o2:1 # text = a sack 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the big red cap of the schoolboy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t11:o3:1 # text = the big red cap of the schoolboy 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 schoolboy schoolboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} his big cap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t11:o4:1 # text = his big cap 1 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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