Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…
lowkey, what did the sailors think the mermaids' singing was?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey, sailors, singing, mermaids · What happens: do, think, be, sing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | 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 sailors | det |
| 6 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mermaids | det |
| 9 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 singing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 mermaids | case |
| 11 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | ccomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | lowkey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | the sailors | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | the mermaids's singing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing | the mermaids | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
a storm's howl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 howl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 storm | case |
| 4 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | a storm | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
the howl of a great storm at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 howl | det |
| 2 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 storm | amod |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 howl | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 storm | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | a great storm at sea | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
a storm's howl coming from the wild sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 howl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 storm | case |
| 4 | howl | howl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 howl | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | a storm's howl not said here | the wild sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | howl | a storm | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the sea's roar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roar | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sea | case |
| 4 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | the sea | nom roar «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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