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title: fr, what did the seaman say Corsor had? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the seaman say Corsor had? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of…

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fr, what did the seaman say Corsor had?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** seaman, Corsor · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** fr · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 307 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Tuk, part 34: Tuk dreams of Danish towns and falls asleep» 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/307-pg1597-part34/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:307-pg1597-part34:t8:1
# text = fr, what did the seaman say Corsor had?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	seaman	seaman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	Corsor	Corsor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the seaman | fr |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Corsor |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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steam-boats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:307-pg1597-part34:t8:o1:1
# text = steam-boats
1	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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steamers and mail-coaches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:307-pg1597-part34:t8:o2:1
# text = steamers and mail-coaches
1	steamers	steamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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poets and famous painters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:307-pg1597-part34:t8:o3:1
# text = poets and famous painters
1	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	painters	painter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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steam-boats and stagecoaches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:307-pg1597-part34:t8:o4:1
# text = steam-boats and stagecoaches
1	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stagecoaches	stagecoach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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