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title: did Knud learn German while he was there? — Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: did Knud learn German while he was there? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for Fran…

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did Knud learn German while he was there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Knud · **What happens:** learn, be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1016 «Andersen, Only a Shoemaker, part 2: Joanna leaves for France, and Knud wanders off to Nuremberg» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1016-pg27200-part227/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t12:1
# text = did Knud learn German while he was there?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Knud	Knud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past · do-support | Knud |  |  |  |  | german *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, with a master in Nuremberg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, with a master in Nuremberg
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nuremberg	Nuremberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, from a teacher in Kjoge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, from a teacher in Kjoge
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, from a priest in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, from a priest in town
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, he only spoke Danish with the other journeymen the whole time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1016-pg27200-part227:t12:o4:1
# text = No, he only spoke Danish with the other journeymen the whole time
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Danish	Danish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | he | Danish |  |  | time | with the other journeymen | tree rules |

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**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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