Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

Bro, why did the boatmen look so lost when he talked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, look, lose, talk · To what, where: boatmen

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boatmen	det
6	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 talked	advcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 talked	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talked	nsubj
12	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the boatmen	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boatman=Eventuality
2	look	present	Bro		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	lose	participle	Bro not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	talk	past	Bro		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

They couldn't get what he was saying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	could	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · progressive	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2

He spoke too quietly for them to hear.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 quietly	advmod
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spoke	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He					quietly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	them = they						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They didn't understand the words he used.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 understand	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 words	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	They	the words					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	use	past	he	the words not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 4

They didn't speak the language he used.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speak	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 speak	advmod
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 language	det
6	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 language	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past · do-support	They	the language					tree rules
2	use	past	he	the language not said here					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient

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