Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Sus, what did her gran say about human souls?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus, gran · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gran	nmod:poss
6	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 souls	case
9	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 souls	amod
10	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Sus						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Sus's gran					about human souls	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

they live forever

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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they					forever property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

they go to a special place after death

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 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	they			a special place	after death		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location

Option 3

they go to heaven

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 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 heaven	case
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	they			heaven			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heaven=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they are given a soul by the sea, but only briefly

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	3 given	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 soul	det
5	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 given	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 briefly	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 briefly	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 briefly	advmod
12	briefly	briefly	ADV	_	3 given	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive	the sea	they				briefly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient soul=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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