--- title: the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say? — Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow · tree and pragmatics description: the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/t4/) [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 Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/845-pg27200-part56/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mayor · **What happens:** send, say · **To what, where:** message · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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/845-pg27200-part56/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t4:1 # text = the mayor sent a message, right? what did it say? 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 right right INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 10 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | the mayor | a message | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | mayor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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} Come and see him right away ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t4:o1:1 # text = Come and see him right away 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 right right ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ### Option 2 {#o2} Visit him soon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t4:o2:1 # text = Visit him soon 1 Visit visit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* | | | | soon *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Come see me straight away, he had news ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t4:o3:1 # text = Come see me straight away, he had news 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 straight straight ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | he | news | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Bring the boy to the office now ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t4:o4:1 # text = Bring the boy to the office now 1 Bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 office office NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | the boy | | the office | now | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to office=Destination | **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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