--- title: mate, what's a genteel bit of talk when you're posh? — Andersen's Tales, The Darning Needle:… · tree and pragmatics description: mate, what's a genteel bit of talk when you're posh? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/813-pg27200-part24/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 Tales, The Darning Needle:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/813-pg27200-part24/) / t9 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/813-pg27200-part24/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:813-pg27200-part24:t9:1 # text = mate, what's a genteel bit of talk when you're posh? 1 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 genteel genteel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} posh, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:813-pg27200-part24:t9:o1:1 # text = posh, bruv 1 posh posh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} rude, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:813-pg27200-part24:t9:o2:1 # text = rude, mate 1 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a kind of boring talk, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:813-pg27200-part24:t9:o3:1 # text = a kind of boring talk, innit 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} polite, like, proper for good families ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:813-pg27200-part24:t9:o4:1 # text = polite, like, proper for good families 1 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 like like INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 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. 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