Test 15 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

why'd the baby sis have to wait the longest, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby sis · What happens: have, wait · To what, where: longest fr

This is test 15 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sis	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sis	compound
5	sis	si	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fr	det
10	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 fr	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 longest	punct
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the baby sis						tree rules
2	wait	to-infinitive	the baby sis not said here	the longest fr					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 · ✓ the right answer

she was the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 youngest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 youngest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 2

she was the last born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 last	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 last	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 last	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					last property	tree rules
2	bear	participle	she not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

she was the youngest of all the sisters in the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 youngest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 youngest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youngest	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sisters	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 youngest	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 family	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 family	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sisters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of all sisters in the family; young property	tree rules

Option 4

she had all her sisters' rising ahead of her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sisters	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sisters	nmod:poss
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	'	's	PART	_	5 sisters	case
7	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
8	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	7 rising	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ahead	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	her sisters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient
2	rise	gerund	she not said here					ahead property	vn assuming_position-50 «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.

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