Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

what was the eldest's fave view, them town lights?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eldest fave view, view · What happens: be, light

This is test 13 · ★ 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 view	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 view	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 eldest	case
6	fave	fave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 view	amod
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lights	punct
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lights	nsubj
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lights	compound
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 view	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the eldest fave view and town lights						tree rules
2	light		view						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 · ← Mova's choice

many fine lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamps	amod
2	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamps	amod
3	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

lights like hundreds of stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 hundreds	case
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lights	nmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 stars	case
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod

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

Option 3

smoke and rising mist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mist	cc
3	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mist	amod
4	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 smoke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

candles in the windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 windows	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windows	det
4	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 candles	nmod

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.

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