Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

sus, why can't mermaids cry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mermaids · What happens: not cry

This is test 8 · ★ 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	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cry	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cry	advmod
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cry	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cry	advmod
6	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cry	nsubj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sus	acl:relcl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	can	mermaids						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

They lack eyes for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lack	nsubj
2	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lack	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	present	They	eyes				for it	tree rules

Option 2

Because their eyes are made of sea water and salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	compound
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 salt	cc
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		their eyes				of sea water and salt	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Their eyes are made of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 salt	case
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Their eyes				of salt	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They have no tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tears	det
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	no tears					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient

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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