Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…
What, according to the text, do mermaids become upon their death?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaids · What happens: accord, become, die · To what, where: text
This is exam question 4 of lesson 878 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the mermaid watches the prince's palace and dreams of a soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 become | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 3 | according | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 What | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 text | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 text | det |
| 6 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 according | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 9 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 become | nsubj |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 death | nmod:poss |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 become | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | to the text goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal | |||||
| 2 | become | present · do-support | upon mermaids's death | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | die | mermaids = mermaid | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 bubbles on the top of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bubbles | det |
| 2 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bubbles | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the white spray on the deep water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spray | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spray | amod |
| 3 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spray | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the foam on the surface of the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foam | det |
| 2 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 surface | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 surface | det |
| 5 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foam | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surface | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the waves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 waves | det |
| 2 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
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