Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

sus, how did the needle end up in the sink?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sus · What happens: do, end up · To what, where: needle, sink

This is test 7 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 sus	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sink	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sink	det
11	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the needle					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Eventuality
2	end up	present	sus					in the sink result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in sink=Result

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

she fell out of the handkerchief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 handkerchief	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 handkerchief	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 handkerchief	det
6	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	she			the handkerchief			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out handkerchief=Location

Option 2

she was dropped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	aux:pass
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · passive		she					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

she slipped off the cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slipped	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip off	past	she	the cloth					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient

Option 4

the cook threw her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the cook	her = she					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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