Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

when do the princesses get to go up top, like what age?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princesses · What happens: do, get, go up · To what, where: top

This is test 14 · ★ 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	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princesses	det
4	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 age	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 age	det
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	present	the princesses not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	the princesses			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go up	to-infinitive	the princesses not said here	top	like what age	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

fifteen years old, when they're grown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grown	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grown	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux:pass
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present · passive		they					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

twenty years old, once their tails were strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 old	obl:unmarked
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strong	punct
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 strong	mark
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tails	nmod:poss
7	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 strong	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 strong	cop
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	their tails					strong property	tree rules

Option 3

sixteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fifteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	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.

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