Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

bro, what did the needle drop in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: needle drop

This is test 8 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
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	7 drop	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	compound
7	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 drop	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the needle drop				bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Eventuality

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 puddle on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 puddle	det
2	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 puddle	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a gutter, lost for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gutter	det
2	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gutter	punct
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	a gutter					for good	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a box of old things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 box	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 box	nmod

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

Option 4

a deep gutter by the road, never to be found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gutter	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gutter	amod
3	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gutter	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 found	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 found	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 found	aux:pass
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gutter	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	to-infinitive · passive							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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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