Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

The boys pricked her and she still went on, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys, she · What happens: prick, go · To what, where: her

This is test 5 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pricked	nsubj
3	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pricked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pricked	conj
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 on	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	8 went	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pricked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prick	past	the boys	her = she					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient
2	go	past	she				still		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, she cried a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic

Option 2

Nah, she was dead upset, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 upset	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 upset	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 upset	amod
6	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 upset	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 upset	discourse

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she was dead chatty about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chatty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chatty	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chatty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chatty	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chatty	amod
6	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chatty	obl

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

Option 4

Yeah, she was dead brave, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brave	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brave	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brave	amod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bruv	punct
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brave	conj

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

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