Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu…

Is she like, a proper diamond, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 diamond	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 diamond	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 diamond	amod
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 like	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 like	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					like 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 · ← Mova's choice

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 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she's just a pin, but she thinks she's all that

The tree, 13 words

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
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinks	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 thinks	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thinks	nsubj
11	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pin	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 that	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 that	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 that	det:predet
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a pin	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	she		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	she	that	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, she's a diamond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nah, she's just glass, but she thinks she's posh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 glass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 glass	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glass	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 glass	advmod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thinks	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 thinks	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thinks	nsubj
10	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glass	acl:relcl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 posh	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 posh	cop
13	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	glass		tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	she	glass not said here		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme
3	is	present	she		posh property	tree rules

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