Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

What did he say about the lamps being out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 lamps	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamps	det
7	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 lamps	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 being	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he					about the lamps	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

That someone had forgotten to light them and it was a total mess all over the quarter.

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 someone	det
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 forgotten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forgotten	aux
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 light	mark
6	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forgotten	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mess	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mess	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mess	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mess	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mess	amod
13	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	conj
14	all	all	ADV	_	17 quarter	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 quarter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quarter	det
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forgotten	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect	someone			tree rules
2	not light	to-infinitive	someone not said here	them = they	the quarter	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	is a	past	it	a total mess		tree rules

Option 2

That it was all very messy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 messy	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 messy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 messy	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 messy	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 messy	advmod
6	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 messy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	That					all, messy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That it was a total mess here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mess	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mess	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mess	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mess	det
5	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mess	amod
6	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mess	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a total mess		here			tree rules

Option 4

That the lamps were fine, but the streets were empty.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 the	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lamps	det
3	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fine	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 empty	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 empty	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 streets	det
9	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 empty	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 empty	cop
11	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fine	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lamps					fine property	tree rules
2	is	past	the streets					empty property	tree rules

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