Test 7 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

Real talk, what did the Fairy's sisters end up doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 end	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 end	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sisters	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sisters	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Fairy	case
9	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 end	nsubj
10	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 end	compound:prt
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Real talk						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Helped build a tall monument over the grave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 build	aux
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monument	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monument	amod
5	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 grave	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grave	det
8	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a tall monument		the grave			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monument=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Helped build a monument

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Helped	xcomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monument	det
4	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	build	infinitive		a monument					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset monument=Product

Option 3

Painted a grave wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wall	det
3	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wall	compound
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		a grave wall					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wall=Destination

Option 4

Helped build a marble monument for the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 build	aux
2	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 monument	det
4	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 monument	amod
5	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 build	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past		a marble monument				for the King	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent monument=Product for king=Beneficiary

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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