Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

fr, what did the lanterns look like on the ship?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, lanterns · What happens: do, look

This is test 14 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lanterns	det
6	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 ship	case
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						tree rules
2	look	present	the lanterns					like the ship	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

like flags of all the nations waving in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 flags	case
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 nations	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nations	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nations	det
6	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flags	nmod
7	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nations	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund	all nations not said here					in the wind	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

like flags of all nations waving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 flags	case
2	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 nations	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nations	det
5	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flags	nmod
6	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 nations	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund	all nations not said here						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

like candles in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	2 candles	case
2	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 candles	nmod

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

Option 4

like many flags of all nations waving over the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	like	like	ADP	_	3 flags	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flags	amod
3	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 nations	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 nations	det
6	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flags	nmod
7	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nations	acl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 deck	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deck	det
10	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund	all nations not said here			the deck			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over deck=Location

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