Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Real talk, where did the mermaid chill to spy on the prince?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaid · What happens: chill, spy

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 chill	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chill	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mermaid	det
7	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	nsubj
8	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spy	mark
10	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chill	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 prince	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spy	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · do-support	the mermaid						tree rules
2	spy	to-infinitive	the mermaid not said here					on the prince	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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

behind the tall stone wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wall	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wall	compound
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in the cool shade of the palm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	4 shade	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shade	det
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shade	amod
4	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palm	det
7	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shade	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shade			the palm					nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

under the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	3 boat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in the marble balcony shadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	5 shadow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
3	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shadow	amod
4	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shadow	compound
5	shadow	shadow	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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