Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…

Bruh, where does the Mermaid say she'll wait?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mermaid · What happens: say, wait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 say	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mermaid	det
6	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	aux
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the Mermaid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	future	Mermaid						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Down by that great rock by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADV	_	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	5 rock	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 rock	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rock	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Down	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Down	obl

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

Option 2

Under that tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Beside the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beside	beside	ADP	_	3 shore	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shore	det
3	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By that rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 rock	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1425-pg503-part12/t9/