Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

did Meta really stuff stones under the old man's feet?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Meta, feet

This is test 8 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Meta	Meta	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 stones	advmod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stones	compound
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 did	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	11 feet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feet	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		Meta		the old man's feet			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

nah, she just kicked them at his face, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kicked	advmod
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 face	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod:poss
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past	she	them = they		his face and bruv			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient at face=Location

Option 2

yeah, so he'd have some support on the wooden horse and not hurt his legs

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 support	det
8	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 horse	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hurt	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hurt	advmod
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 legs	nmod:poss
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	he	some support				on the wooden horse	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient
2	not hurt	infinitive	he not said here	horse's legs					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, so he'd have support on the wooden horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 support	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 support	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 support	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 support	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 support	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 support	aux
7	support	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 horse	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horse	det
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horse	amod
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 support	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	support	would · perfect	he					on the wooden horse	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

nah, she put tons of sharp stones under him so he'd be in agony on the wooden horse, mate

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stones	case
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tons	nmod
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 agony	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 agony	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 agony	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 agony	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 agony	case
16	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 horse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 horse	amod
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agony	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mate	punct
22	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agony	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	she	tons of sharp stones				under him = he	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ton=Theme under he=Destination
2	is	would	he			agony and mate		on the wooden horse	tree rules

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