--- title: Is she like, a proper diamond, or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Ne… · tree and pragmatics description: Is she like, a proper diamond, or what? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1749 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gutter, proud to the end» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1749-pg640-part73/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Ne…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1749-pg640-part73/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gu… Is she like, a proper diamond, or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** be This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1749 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning-Needle: lost in the gutter, proud to the end» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1749-pg640-part73/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1749-pg640-part73:t9:1 # text = Is she like, a proper diamond, or what? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | she | | | | | like *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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nah, she's just a pin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1749-pg640-part73:t9:o1:1 # text = Nah, she's just a pin 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | she | a pin | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nah, she's just a pin, but she thinks she's all that ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1749-pg640-part73:t9:o2:1 # text = Nah, she's just a pin, but she thinks she's all that 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 pin pin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 15 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | she | a pin | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | she | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | she | that | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, she's a diamond ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1749-pg640-part73:t9:o3:1 # text = Yeah, she's a diamond 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | she | a diamond | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, she's just glass, but she thinks she's posh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1749-pg640-part73:t9:o4:1 # text = Nah, she's just glass, but she thinks she's posh 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | she | glass | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | she | glass *not said here* | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | she | | | | | posh *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. 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