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title: so what did Herr Sivertsen call The Tempest? — Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did Herr Sivertsen call The Tempest? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds o…

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so what did Herr Sivertsen call The Tempest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Herr · **What happens:** do, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 931 «Andersen's Tales, The Omnibus of Life, part 2: the deeds of the dead and the aunt who lived for the theatre» 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/931-pg27200-part142/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t9:1
# text = so what did Herr Sivertsen call The Tempest?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Herr	Herr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Sivertsen	Sivertsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tempest	Tempest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | present | Herr |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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pure rubbish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t9:o1:1
# text = pure rubbish
1	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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mad nonsense from start to finish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t9:o2:1
# text = mad nonsense from start to finish
1	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a mad piece of nonsense for children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t9:o3:1
# text = a mad piece of nonsense for children
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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mad nonsense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:931-pg27200-part142:t9:o4:1
# text = mad nonsense
1	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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