Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Did the witch warn her about the deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: warn · To what, where: her

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 warn	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warn	nsubj
4	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warn	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 deal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deal	det
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warn	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 warn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · do-support	the witch		her = she			about the deal	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about deal=Topic

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

Nope, she promised nothing bad would happen to the mermaid at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 promised	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 happen	nsubj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nothing	amod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 happen	aux
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mermaid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mermaid	det
11	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happen	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	she						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	would	nothing			all		to the mermaid	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she said it could go wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 go	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	could	it					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, she said it might hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hurt	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hurt	aux
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt	might	it						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, she said the deal might cost her the sea and her life forever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deal	det
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cost	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cost	aux
8	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cost	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cost	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 life	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sea	conj
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 cost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cost	might	the deal	the sea and deal's life	her = she			forever property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary sea=Value

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