Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

fam, did the fellow say he'd not forgotten her kindness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam, fellow · What happens: do, say, not forget · To what, where: kindness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fam	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 fellow	det
5	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 forgotten	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 forgotten	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 forgotten	advmod
10	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 kindness	nmod:poss
12	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgotten	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fam		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the fellow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not forget	would	fellow	fam's kindness	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 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he said he'd totally forgotten her kindness and didn't care at all, mate

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 forgotten	aux
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 forgotten	advmod
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kindness	nmod:poss
10	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgotten	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 care	cc
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 care	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 care	advmod
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 forgotten	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 care	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mate	punct
18	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			mate vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	would	he	her kindness		totally property	tree rules
3	not care	past · do-support	he not said here		all		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

nah, he forgot, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	mate					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said he hadn't forgotten it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forgotten	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 forgotten	advmod
8	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 forgotten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not forget	past · perfect	he	it					tree rules

Option 4

nah, he said he had forgotten it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgotten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgotten	aux
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgotten	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgotten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget	past · perfect	he	it				bruv obl	tree rules

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