Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

lol, what did the chips and straws do?

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

This is test 13 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chips	det
6	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 straws	cc
8	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chips	conj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the chips and straws						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

sailed past her and laughed at her proud look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sailed	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 laughed	cc
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sailed	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 look	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 look	nmod:poss
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	amod
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past						past her = she	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past she=Trajectory
2	laugh	past				her proud look			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

sailed past without caring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADV	_	1 sailed	advmod
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 caring	mark
4	caring	care	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 sailed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	past						past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	care	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

sailed on, not even stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 sailed	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stopping	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stopping	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 stopping	advmod
6	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sailed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail on	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not stop	gerund							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

floated down the gutter and mocked the needle loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 gutter	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gutter	det
4	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 floated	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mocked	cc
6	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 floated	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 needle	det
8	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mocked	obj
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 mocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	participle				the gutter			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down gutter=Trajectory
2	mock	past		the needle				loudly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme

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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