Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

which one was the cutest, the baby sister?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cutest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cutest	det
5	cutest	cut	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sister	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sister	compound
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutest	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cutest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which one					the baby sister obl; cut property	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 second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 second	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root

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

Option 2

the one who was prettiest of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prettiest	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 prettiest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prettiest	cop
5	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 prettiest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the one					of all; pretty property	tree rules

Option 3

the prettiest and smallest one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prettiest	det
2	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 smallest	cc
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 prettiest	conj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 smallest	nummod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the youngest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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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