Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

fr, what did the seaman say Corsor had?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seaman, Corsor · What happens: say, have · To what, where: fr · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seaman	det
6	seaman	seaman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 fr	conj
8	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the seaman	fr					tree rules
2	have	past	Corsor						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

steam-boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boats	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 steam	punct
3	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

steamers and mail-coaches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 coaches	cc
3	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coaches	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 mail	punct
5	coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 steamers	conj

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

Option 3

poets and famous painters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 painters	cc
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painters	amod
4	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 poets	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

steam-boats and stagecoaches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boats	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 steam	punct
3	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stagecoaches	cc
5	stagecoaches	stagecoach	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 boats	conj

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

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