Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

ok, what did the needle think she was good for?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: needle · What happens: do, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	ok	ok	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 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 good	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 think	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	10 good	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	the needle		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	needle	good property	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

fine sewing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sewing	amod
2	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sewing the best silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 silk	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 silk	amod
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sewing	obj

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

Option 3

fancy embroidery work on the lady's silk gown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	amod
2	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	compound
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 gown	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gown	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lady	case
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gown	compound
9	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fancy embroidery work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	amod
2	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	compound
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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