Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a po…

So the moral is don't be a diva, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moral · What happens: not be · To what, where: diva

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 811 «Andersen's Tales, The Daisy, part 22: a lark sings to a poor daisy while the proud flowers sulk» 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 diva	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moral	det
3	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diva	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 diva	cop
5	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 diva	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 diva	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 diva	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 diva	det
9	diva	diva	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 diva	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 diva	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 diva	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present · do-support	the moral	a diva					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

Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 size	punct
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 colours	cc
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 size	conj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	size and fancy colours	you				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2

Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better, so the tulips and peonies should have been nicer to the daisy

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 size	punct
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 size	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 make	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nicer	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	21 nicer	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tulips	det
15	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nicer	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 peonies	cc
17	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tulips	conj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 nicer	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 nicer	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 nicer	cop
21	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 size	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 daisy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 daisy	det
24	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nicer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	fancy colours	you				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
2	is	should · perfect	the tulips and peonies					to the daisy; nice property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, being big don't make you better, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 big	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 big	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						big property	tree rules
2	not make	present · do-support		you				mate vocative; good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 4

Yeah, size and fancy colours don't make you better, and being small and humble is actually the best thing

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 size	punct
3	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thing	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 size	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 make	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 small	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 small	cc
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 small	cop
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 better	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 humble	cc
17	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 small	conj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	cop
19	actually	actually	ADV	_	22 thing	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	fancy colours	you	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
2	is	gerund	fancy colours not said here		small property	tree rules
3	be		fancy colours not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	size	the best thing	actually property	tree rules

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