Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…
Which of the following constitutes the principal sacrifice demanded by the sea witch in exchange for the draught?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, demand · To what, where: principal sacrifice, exchange
This is exam question 1 of lesson 879 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the mermaid sneaks off to the sea witch and pays a terrible price» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sacrifice | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sacrifice | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sacrifice | case |
| 5 | constitutes | constitute | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sacrifice | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sacrifice | det |
| 7 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sacrifice | amod |
| 8 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sacrifice | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 witch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 witch | compound |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demanded | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 exchange | case |
| 15 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demanded | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 draught | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 draught | det |
| 18 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exchange | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sacrifice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the principal sacrifice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | participle | the principal sacrifice not said here | exchange for the draught | by the sea witch | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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
Her voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The loss of the mermaid's golden hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mermaid | det |
| 5 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mermaid | case |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hair | amod |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Her gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The surrender of the mermaid's voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 surrender | det |
| 2 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mermaid | det |
| 5 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mermaid | case |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surrender | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surrender | the mermaid's voice | nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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