Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

what scared the third sister, like a monster or something?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: scare · To what, where: third sister

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 scared	nsubj
2	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
4	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 sister	amod
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 monster	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 monster	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 something	cc
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 monster	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	past		the third sister				like a monster	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer

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

a barking dog on a fisherman's cottage porch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 porch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fisherman	det
6	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 porch	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 fisherman	case
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 porch	compound
9	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

a fisherman's loud and barking old dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loud	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fisherman	case
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barking	cc
6	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 loud	conj
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 barking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund		old dog					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a loud storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 storm	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 storm	amod
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a barking dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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/876-pg27200-part87/t11/