Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…
wait, did the sisters stay up top for good?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, sisters · What happens: wait, stay · To what, where: up top
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sisters | det |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 7 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 top | amod |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 good | case |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay | past · do-support | the sisters | up top | for good | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme top=Location |
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
no, they wanted to go back to the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 wanted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | they | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | they not said here | to the water result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to water=Result |
Option 2
yes, they loved the land and never left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 loved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 left | advmod |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loved | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | they | the land | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not leave | participle | they not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
no
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yes, forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 forever | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 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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