Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

She said weeping's not fine, so what's that all about?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: She · What happens: say, weep, not be, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fine	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 said	ccomp
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 that	cop
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 what	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 that	appos
13	about	about	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	weep	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present			fine property	tree rules
4	is a	present		that		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

She's dead tough, so she never cries at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tough	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tough	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tough	amod
4	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cries	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 cries	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cries	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 cries	advmod
9	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tough	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					tough property	tree rules
2	not cry speech: express	present	she			all			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

She's too proud to cry in front of the boys, even though she wants to cry really badly, bruv

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cry	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boys	det
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wants	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 wants	advmod
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 wants	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wants	nsubj
16	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cry	mark
18	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wants	xcomp
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 badly	advmod
20	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 cry	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bruv	punct
22	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		proud property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	She not said here	front of the boys		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
3	want	present	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	cry speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		badly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She's too proud to cry, even though she wants to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cry	mark
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wants	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 wants	advmod
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 wants	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	11 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	She	proud property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	She not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	she		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

She's too posh to weep, though she really wants to, and she's always been like that since the box

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 posh	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 posh	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 posh	advmod
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 posh	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wants	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 wants	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 wants	advmod
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 posh	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 wants	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 that	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 that	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 that	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 that	cop
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 that	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 that	cop
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 posh	conj
21	since	since	ADP	_	23 box	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 box	det
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 posh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She	since the box	posh property	tree rules
2	weep	to-infinitive	She not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	present	she			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	present	she		like that; always property	tree rules

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