Test 1 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…
Mate, the mermaid just wants some kid off the king, innit?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: want, innit · To what, where: kid
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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 | 6 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mermaid | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mermaid | det |
| 4 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mate | conj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 wants | advmod |
| 6 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 kid | det |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wants | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kid | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wants | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Mate and the mermaid | some kid | off the king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | Mate and the mermaid not said here | 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
Yeah, the king's gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 gold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gold | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, his first kid, the eldest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 kid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kid | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kid | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kid | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eldest | det |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 kid | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, she wants his crown, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 wants | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wants | nsubj |
| 4 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 crown | nmod:poss |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wants | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 innit | punct |
| 8 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crown | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | she | his crown and innit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crown | his = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the first child born to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 child | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 child | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | the first child not said here | child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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