Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 89: the m…

Lol, how long do mermaids live, like, proper long?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mermaids · What happens: live

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 live	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 live	aux
6	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 long	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 live	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present · do-support	mermaids					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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

around a thousand years or more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	around	around	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thousand	det
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 years	conj

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

Option 2

four hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

three hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

for as long as the ocean lasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 lasts	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ocean	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lasts	nsubj
7	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	the ocean						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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