Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

wait, when the ship sank where did the prince go?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ship, prince · What happens: wait, sink, go

This is test 9 · ★ 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 sank	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sank	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sank	nsubj
6	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 go	advmod
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sank	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink	past	the ship	tree rules
3	go	past · do-support	the prince	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

sank into the deep waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 waves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waves	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waves	amod
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past				the deep waves			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

under the rough swells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 rough	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rough	det
3	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swells	obl
4	swells	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swell	present				the rough			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

fell down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past						down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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