Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Like, what would give her a soul, bestie?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: soul, her

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 give	obj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soul	det
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bestie	punct
10	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soul	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would		a soul and bestie	her = she				tree rules

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

a man who loves her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 loves	nsubj
4	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 man	acl:relcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	a man	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

a human who adores her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 human	det
2	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 adores	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 adores	nsubj
4	adores	adore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 adores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adore	present	a human	her = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a man loving her most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 most	nsubj
3	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 man	acl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 loving	obj
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	gerund	a man not said here	her = she					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

true love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 love	amod
2	love	love	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.

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