Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle: the proud needle is…

mate, what's a genteel bit of talk when you're posh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: be · To what, where: genteel bit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bit	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 bit	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 talk	case
9	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 posh	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 posh	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 posh	cop
13	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mate and a genteel bit	a genteel bit				of talk	tree rules
2	is	present	you					posh property	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

posh, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bruv	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 posh	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

rude, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 rude	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a kind of boring talk, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 talk	case
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	amod
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

polite, like, proper for good families

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 polite	punct
3	like	like	INTJ	_	1 polite	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 proper	punct
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 polite	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 families	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 families	amod
8	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 proper	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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