Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

So the needle reckons she's fancy, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: needle · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1749 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gutter, proud to the end» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 reckons	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fancy	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fancy	cop
7	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckons	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckons	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the needle						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	needle					fancy 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

Option 1

Nah, she's quite modest and really quite shy and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 modest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 modest	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 modest	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 modest	advmod
6	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shy	cc
8	really	really	ADV	_	10 shy	advmod
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 shy	advmod
10	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 modest	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kind	cc
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 modest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	modest property	tree rules
2	be		she not said here		tree rules
3	be		she not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she's dead proud and thinks she's well posh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 proud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proud	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proud	amod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thinks	cc
8	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	conj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 posh	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 posh	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 posh	advmod
12	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	proud property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	she not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	she	posh, well property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, she's just a pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 pin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pin	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pin	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 pin	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pin	det
7	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a pin					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she's humble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 humble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 humble	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 humble	cop
5	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					humble property	tree rules

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