Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Bare cringe, what do humans call their legs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: humans · What happens: call · To what, where: Bare cringe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cringe	amod
2	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
6	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cringe	parataxis
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cringe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	humans	Bare cringe					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme leg=Result

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

two long stilts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stilts	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stilts	amod
3	stilts	stilt	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

two stout props

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 props	nummod
2	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 props	amod
3	props	prop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

two stout props that they walk on every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 props	nummod
2	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 props	amod
3	props	prop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 walk	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walk	nsubj
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	two stout props				day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

two rather strange wooden props that wobble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 props	nummod
2	rather	rather	ADV	_	3 strange	advmod
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 props	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 props	amod
5	props	prop	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wobble	nsubj
7	wobble	wobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 props	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wobble	present	two strange wooden props						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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