Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Gutted, what does the mermaid want most, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, do, want · To what, where: mermaid

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 does	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mermaid	det
6	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 does	conj
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 want	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gut	participle			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the mermaid	fam obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Eventuality
3	want	present			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

to see the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 see	mark
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		the land					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to be a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 fish	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a fish					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to be human for a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 human	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 human	cop
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 human	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive					day	human property	tree rules

Option 4

to be a human forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	4 human	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 human	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 human	det
4	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 human	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a human				forever property	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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