Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…

Was the bishop actually the bishop though?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bishop

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bishop	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bishop	det
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bishop	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 bishop	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bishop	det
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	though	though	ADV	_	6 bishop	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bishop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bishop					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 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't think so, he said no way

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	4 think	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	he	no way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He thought it was surely the bishop, and said so twice.

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bishop	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bishop	cop
5	surely	surely	ADV	_	7 bishop	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bishop	det
7	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 twice	advmod
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 said	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	the bishop	surely property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	He not said here		twice property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He wasn't sure, but yes maybe.

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	4 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 yes	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 yes	cc
7	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sure	ccomp
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 yes	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He					sure property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, he believed it was the bishop.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bishop	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bishop	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bishop	det
8	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believed	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	the bishop					tree rules

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