Test 2 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

did the guy really say he was a learned man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: guy, he · What happens: do, say, learn, be · To what, where: guy, learned man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 277 «Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wanders old Copenhagen and is taken for a foreigner» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guy	acl:relcl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 man	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the guy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the guy not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	learn	participle			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	he	a learned man	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he said he was no scholar, just chatting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scholar	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scholar	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 scholar	det
8	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chatting	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 chatting	advmod
11	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	no scholar	tree rules
3	chat speech: other	gerund	he not said here		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, he said he was no scholar, only a man chatting idly over his glass

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scholar	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scholar	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 scholar	det
8	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 man	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scholar	appos
13	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 man	acl
14	idly	idly	ADV	_	13 chatting	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 glass	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 glass	nmod:poss
17	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chatting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	no scholar			tree rules
3	chat speech: other	gerund	a man not said here		man's glass	idly property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, he said he was a learned man who had read every book in Zealand

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 read	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 man	acl:relcl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 read	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Zealand	case
16	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	a learned man		tree rules
4	read	past · perfect	a learned man	every book	Zealand	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

nah, he said he was just a merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 merchant	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 merchant	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 merchant	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a merchant					tree rules

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