Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

bro, did the needle really say she was too fine to cry?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do, say, be, cry · To what, where: needle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 813 «Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is tossed into a gutter, sails in an egg-shell, and is crushed by a cart.» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 needle	det
5	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fine	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fine	csubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	bro	the needle		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	bro not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	bro		fine property	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she just cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, she was just a bit moody, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 moody	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 moody	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 moody	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 moody	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moody	obl:unmarked
8	moody	moody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	INTJ	_	8 moody	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					a bit obl:unmarked; moody property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was like, too posh to sob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 posh	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 posh	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	cop
5	like	like	INTJ	_	8 posh	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 posh	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 posh	advmod
8	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sob	mark
10	sob	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 posh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	to-infinitive							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, she sobbed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sobbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sobbed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sobbed	nsubj
4	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past	she						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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