Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…

is the schoolmaster saying the bell's a total liar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: schoolmaster · What happens: be, say · To what, where: schoolmaster, bell, total liar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 schoolmaster	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 schoolmaster	det
3	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 liar	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 schoolmaster	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bell	det
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 liar	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 liar	det
9	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 liar	amod
10	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 liar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the schoolmaster	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the schoolmaster not said here	the bell	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bell=Topic
3	is a	present	the schoolmaster	a total liar	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 says there was no bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 bell	det
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	past	no bell			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah he says the bell was ringing under the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ringing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ringing	aux
7	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	ccomp
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ringing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ring	past · progressive	the bell			the water			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location

Option 3

nah he says there was no bell down there at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 bell	det
7	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
8	down	down	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 says	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 there	obl

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

Option 4

yeah he says the bell rang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rang	nsubj
6	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ring	past	the bell						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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