Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…
no cap, who did the mermaid save from drowning?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: save, drown
This is test 2 · ★ 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 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 save | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 save | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 save | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mermaid | det |
| 7 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 save | nsubj |
| 8 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cap | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 drowning | mark |
| 10 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 save | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · do-support | no cap | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drown | gerund | no cap not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
a sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the old captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 captain | amod |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a young sailor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sailor | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sailor | amod |
| 3 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the young prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/877-pg27200-part88/t2/