Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

Why'd she think the glass was a diamond, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, glass · What happens: think, be, innit · To what, where: diamond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 think	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 think	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diamond	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 diamond	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 diamond	det
9	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 think	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	she		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the glass	a diamond	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	she not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos it was dead sparkly, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 sparkly	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sparkly	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sparkly	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sparkly	amod
5	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bruv	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sparkly	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					sparkly property	tree rules

Option 2

Cos it was, like, glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 glass	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 glass	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glass	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 glass	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 glass	case
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					like glass	tree rules

Option 3

Cos it was dead heavy, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 heavy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	amod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos it was dead expensive, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 expensive	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expensive	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expensive	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 expensive	amod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bruv	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expensive	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					expensive property	tree rules

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