Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

what was the little one's skin like, all clear and stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	5 one	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 one	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	INTJ	_	1 what	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 what	appos
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 all	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stuff	cc
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							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

as white as new snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 white	advmod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 snow	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snow	amod
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 white	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

as clear as a rose-leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 clear	advmod
2	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 leaf	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leaf	det
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaf	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clear	obl

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

Option 3

pale as pearl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 pearl	case
3	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pale	obl

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

Option 4

as pink as a seashell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 pink	advmod
2	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 seashell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seashell	det
5	seashell	seashell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pink	obl

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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