Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

real talk, what was the cook doing to the slipper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: real talk, cook · What happens: be, do · To what, where: cook

This is test 10 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cook	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 cook	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cook	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cook	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 slipper	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 slipper	det
11	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	real talk	the cook					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the cook not said here					to the slipper	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

mending a crack in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crack	det
3	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mending	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 mending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		a crack		crack			tree rules

Option 2

mending a big crack in the leather sole with wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crack	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crack	amod
4	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mending	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sole	det
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sole	compound
8	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mending	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 wax	case
10	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		a big crack		the leather sole		with wax	tree rules

Option 3

sealing a long split in the back of the slipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sealing	seal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 split	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 split	amod
4	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sealing	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sealing	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 slipper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slipper	det
10	slipper	slipper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	gerund		a long split		the back of the slipper			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent split=Patient

Option 4

stitching the heel up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stitching	stitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heel	det
3	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stitching	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 stitching	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch up	gerund		the heel					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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