Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catche…

did the mermaid just give up when he died?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mermaid · What happens: give up, die

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1935 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Golden Mermaid: the Prince catches the mermaid, but his jealous brothers kill him and the wolf brings him back to life» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 died	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 give	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	the mermaid						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	past	mermaid						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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, she went back to the sea and told all the fish that the Prince had died in the wood

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 fish	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fish	det
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	ccomp
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 died	nsubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 died	aux
18	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fish	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go back	past	she	to the sea result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sea=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	past · perfect	all fish	in the wood	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wood=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, she sat by him for weeks crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	obl
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she				week	by him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, she went back to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	she					to sea result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sea=Result

Option 4

nah, she stayed and kept crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
7	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stay	past	she	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	she not said here	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	gerund	she not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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