Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Is it true the lady said "He has genius"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, lady, He · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: genius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the lady			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	He	genius		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient

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

yeah, the General's lady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 lady	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 General	det
4	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 General	case
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yeah, the porter's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 wife	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 porter	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the General's lady said it at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 General	det
4	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 General	case
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the General's lady	General		dinner			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

no, it was the General's lady's maid who said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 maid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 maid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 maid	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lady	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 General	case
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 maid	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 lady	case
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 maid	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the General's lady's maid					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the General's lady's maid	maid					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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