Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

did the waggon actually crack her, or did she just sulk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: crack, sulk · To what, where: her

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sulk	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 waggon	det
3	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 crack	advmod
5	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crack	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sulk	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 sulk	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sulk	aux
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sulk	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sulk	advmod
12	sulk	sulk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 sulk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present	she not said here	her = she				actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme
2	sulk	past · do-support	she						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

it smashed the lid, but she stayed fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smashed	nsubj
2	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smashed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smashed	conj
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past	it	the lid					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
2	stay	past	she					fine property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

it cracked the shell, and she bent but didn't snap, honest, mate

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shell	det
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bent	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bent	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bent	nsubj
8	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cracked	conj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 snap	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 snap	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 snap	advmod
12	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cracked	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honest	punct
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mate	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 honest	punct
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	crack	past	it	the shell	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
2	bend	past	she		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not snap	past · do-support		honest mate	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mate=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it cracked the shell, but she didn't snap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cracked	nsubj
2	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shell	det
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 snap	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 snap	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 snap	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 snap	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 snap	advmod
10	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cracked	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	it	the shell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
2	not snap	past · do-support	she						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

it bent the shell, and she was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bent	nsubj
2	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shell	det
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bent	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fine	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	it	the shell					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent shell=Material
2	is	past	she					fine property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/813-pg27200-part24/t5/