Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

Was she, like, proud of her finger-brothers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 proud	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct
4	like	like	INTJ	_	6 proud	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 brothers	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 brothers	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 finger	punct
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 proud	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of her finger brothers; proud 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were all dead full of themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 full	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 full	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 full	amod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					of themselves = they; full property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, they were all dead well behaved and never showed off to anyone in the whole box at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 showed	nsubj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 behaved	advmod
8	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dead	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 showed	advmod
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 showed	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 anyone	case
14	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 showed	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 box	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 box	amod
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 anyone	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		all, dead property	tree rules
2	behave	participle	they not said here		well property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
3	not show off	past	dead	anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to anyone=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they were all dead full of themselves and always showing off their rings to everyone who passed by

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 full	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 full	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 full	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 full	amod
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 full	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 showing	cc
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 showing	advmod
12	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 full	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 showing	compound:prt
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rings	nmod:poss
15	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 showing	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 showing	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 everyone	acl:relcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	19 passed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	they			of themselves = they; full property	tree rules
2	show off	gerund	they not said here	their rings	everyone	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Topic to everyone=Recipient
3	pass by	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, they were all dead dodgy and rude lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dodgy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 dodgy	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dodgy	amod
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lot	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rude	cc
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dodgy	conj
10	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					all, dodgy property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

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