Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

Did anyone even get what he was saying about the Holm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: anyone, he · What happens: get, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 get	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 saying	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saying	aux
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 get	ccomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Holm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Holm	det
11	Holm	Holm	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saying	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	anyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · progressive	he					about the Holm	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Not really, it was like a different language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	9 language	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 language	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 language	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 language	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 language	det
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 language	amod
9	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					like a different language	tree rules

Option 2

Not really, it sounded like gibberish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sounded	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 sounded	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 gibberish	case
7	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sound	past	it					like gibberish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Not really, the boatmen were talking in a dialect so different that it sounded like a foreign tongue entirely.

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	7 talking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boatmen	det
5	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 talking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talking	aux
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dialect	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dialect	det
10	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 different	advmod
12	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talking	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sounded	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sounded	nsubj
15	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 different	advcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 tongue	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tongue	det
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tongue	amod
19	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sounded	obl
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	15 sounded	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	the boatmen			a dialect			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	past	dialect					like a foreign tongue; entirely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Not really, because the boatmen's dialect of the old Holm quarter was like a completely different language to everyone there.

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	19 language	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 really	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 language	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boatmen	det
6	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dialect	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 boatmen	case
8	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 language	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 quarter	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 quarter	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 quarter	amod
12	Holm	Holm	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 quarter	compound
13	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dialect	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 language	cop
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 language	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 language	det
17	completely	completely	ADV	_	18 different	advmod
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 language	amod
19	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 everyone	case
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 language	nmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 everyone	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 language	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boatmen's dialect of the old Holm quarter					like a different language; to everyone	tree rules

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