Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

Ok so the counsellor thinks a drum parade is just a costume party, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: counsellor, drum parade · What happens: think, be · To what, where: costume party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 837 «Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48: a lost counsellor wanders strange old streets and thinks he is ill» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 thinks	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 thinks	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 counsellor	det
4	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	nsubj
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 parade	det
7	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 parade	compound
8	parade	parade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 party	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 party	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 party	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 party	det
12	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 party	compound
13	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 party	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	5 thinks	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the counsellor						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	a drum parade	a costume party					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

Nah, it's a fire drill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 drill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drill	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drill	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drill	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drill	compound
7	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fire drill					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he's totally thinking it's a masquerade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 thinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 thinking	advmod
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 masquerade	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 masquerade	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 masquerade	det
10	masquerade	masquerade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · progressive	he					totally property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a masquerade					tree rules

Option 3

Nope, it's a funeral.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 funeral	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funeral	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funeral	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 funeral	det
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 funeral	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a funeral					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, costume party.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 party	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 party	punct
3	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 party	compound
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 party	punct

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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