Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

bruh, why was the daisy sighing "Ugh" at the start?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daisy · What happens: be, sigh · To what, where: Ugh, start

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daisy	det
6	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
7	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 daisy	acl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Ugh	punct
9	Ugh	ugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sighing	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Ugh	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sighing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the daisy					why property	tree rules
2	sigh	gerund	the daisy not said here	Ugh		the start			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ugh=Topic

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

cause the girl was chopping the tulips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopping	aux
5	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cause	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tulips	det
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chopping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	chop	past · progressive	the girl	the tulips					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tulip=Patient

Option 2

bc the boys were digging up the whole garden bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bc	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boys	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 digging	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 digging	aux
5	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 digging	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bed	compound
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 digging	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past · progressive	the bc boys	the whole garden bed					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the boys were near the tree

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	6 tree	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boys			the tree			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cause the girl was chopping the tulips and the lark sang loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chopping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chopping	aux
5	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cause	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tulips	det
7	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chopping	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sang	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lark	det
10	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	nsubj
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sang	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	chop	past · progressive	the girl	the tulips		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tulip=Patient
3	sing speech: express	past	the lark		loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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