--- title: Who was the sus old soldier chatting to Karen, fam? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was the sus old soldier chatting to Karen, fam? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/309-pg1597-part36/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red… Who was the sus old soldier chatting to Karen, fam? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sus old soldier · **What happens:** be, chat · **To what, where:** sus old soldier, Karen This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 309 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen dances in red shoes until she loses her feet, then repents» 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/309-pg1597-part36/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t3:1 # text = Who was the sus old soldier chatting to Karen, fam? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 sus suspect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 chatting chat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Karen Karen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the sus old soldier | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | the sus old soldier *not said here* | | Karen | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} the wicked old soldier of the wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t3:o1:1 # text = the wicked old soldier of the wood 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the strange old soldier who had a sword ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t3:o2:1 # text = the strange old soldier who had a sword 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the strange old soldier | a sword | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} the old clergyman ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t3:o3:1 # text = the old clergyman 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 clergyman clergyman NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the old soldier ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:309-pg1597-part36:t3:o4:1 # text = the old soldier 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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