Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

nah, what does the needle say about herself?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: needle · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 needle	det
6	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 herself	case
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 say	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the needle					about needle	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

she is far too fine a needle for such a dirty world

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	5 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fine	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 fine	advmod
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 needle	det
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	nsubj
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 world	case
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 world	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 world	det
11	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 world	amod
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					for such dirty world; far, fine property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she is too fine for this world

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	4 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fine	advmod
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					for this world; fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she is the finest one here

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	5 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 one	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	the finest one		here			tree rules

Option 4

she has been fine all her life and deserves a lady

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	4 fine	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 life	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fine	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 deserves	cc
9	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lady	det
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	she					her life obl:unmarked; fine property	tree rules
2	deserve	present	she not said here	a lady					tree rules

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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