Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Counsellor's Evening Walk, part 48:…
What did the lady in the tavern say, like, in what language?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: lady, tavern · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tavern | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tavern | det |
| 7 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 language | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 language | case |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 language | det |
| 14 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the lady | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the tavern | like what language | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tavern=Manner |
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
German, so he switched to German
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 switched | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 switched | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 switched | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 switched | nsubj |
| 5 | switched | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 German | case |
| 7 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 switched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | switch | past | he | German | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to german=Result |
Option 2
Dutch, so he replied in Dutch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 replied | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Dutch | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Dutch | case |
| 7 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dutch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | he | Dutch | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
German.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 German | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Danish, sure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Danish | conj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Danish | 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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