Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Ngl, what do humans reckon about the fish tail?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: humans · What happens: reckon

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 tail	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tail	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tail	compound
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	humans					about the fish tail; Ngl vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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

it is quite ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ugly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ugly	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 ugly	advmod
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					ugly property	tree rules

Option 2

it is a bit smelly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smelly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smelly	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelly	obl:unmarked
5	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					a bit obl:unmarked; smelly property	tree rules

Option 3

it is rather silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 silly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 silly	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 silly	advmod
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					silly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they think it is a funny-looking tail

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 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tail	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tail	det
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 funny	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tail	amod
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	they		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present	it	a looking tail	tree rules

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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