Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

so what did the man say when he heard the news, seriously?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 news	det
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seriously	punct
13	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	9 heard	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the man						tree rules
2	hear	past	man	the news				seriously property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus

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

Option 1

What?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

Option 2

Well, I did not expect that one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 expect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 expect	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expect	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 expect	advmod
6	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not expect	past · do-support	I	that one					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

That makes no sense to me at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sense	det
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	That	no sense	me	all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

I don't understand a word of this!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 word	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	I	a word of this					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	word			this					nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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