Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…
Bruv, what did the sailors reckon her veil was?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sailors · What happens: do, reckon, be · To what, where: veil
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sailors | det |
| 6 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reckon | nsubj |
| 7 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 veil | nmod:poss |
| 9 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reckon | obj |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the sailors | Bruv's veil | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent veil=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a swan with wings out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swan | det |
| 2 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 wings | case |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swan | nmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 wings | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a big white ship's sail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 6 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a white sail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sail | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sail | amod |
| 3 | sail | sail | 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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