Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…

Real talk, what did the miller say about his own trip?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: miller · What happens: do, say, trip · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 trip	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trip	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trip	amod
12	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		Real talk		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the miller		about miller's own trip	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	trip		miller			nom trip «act transitive»: poss=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

he had travelled to Italy and crossed the sea by steamship

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	3 travelled	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	aux
3	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Italy	case
5	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 crossed	cc
7	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 steamship	case
11	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	he		Italy				tree rules
2	cross	past	he not said here	the sea				by steamship	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient

Option 2

he went as far as a steamship on the great lake and back

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 steamship	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 steamship	det
7	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 lake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lake	amod
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 back	cc
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lake	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he			the great lake and back		as a steamship; far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lake=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he went as far as a steamship

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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 steamship	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 steamship	det
7	steamship	steamship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	he					as a steamship; far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he took a long walk abroad

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	2 took	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	a long walk				abroad property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme

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