--- title: the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh? — Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow · tree and pragmatics description: the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh? Test 6 · ★ 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/t6/) [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/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mayor, he · **What happens:** say, drink, not be · **To what, where:** mayor · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t6:1 # text = the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh? 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mayor mayor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mayor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **drink** | past | mayor | mayor | | | | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is** | past | he | | | | | harsh *property* | tree rules | 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} Nah, he was actually quite nice ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t6:o1:1 # text = Nah, he was actually quite nice 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 actually actually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | actually, nice *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, he was very mean ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t6:o2:1 # text = Yeah, he was very mean 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, super cruel and totally unfair ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t6:o3:1 # text = Yeah, super cruel and totally unfair 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 super super ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 totally totally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 unfair unfair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, very harsh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:845-pg27200-part56:t6:o4:1 # text = Yeah, very harsh 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 harsh harsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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