Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

lowkey sad, what did the lark need most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: do, need · To what, where: lark

This is test 3 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 need	nsubj
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 lowkey	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 lowkey	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lark	det
7	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 need	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	lowkey	the lark					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lark=Eventuality
2	need	present	lowkey						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

a bigger cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a drink of water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drink	det
2	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a cool drink of fresh water from the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drink	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drink	amod
3	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 well	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a bigger cage with some room to fly around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cage	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fly	mark
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cage	acl
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly around	to-infinitive						around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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