Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Yo, was the witch laughing or crying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: be, laugh, cry · To what, where: witch

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 witch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 witch	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 witch	acl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 crying	cc
8	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 laughing	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 witch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the witch	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	the witch not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund	the witch not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Screaming at the mermaid's sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	6 sorrow	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mermaid	det
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorrow	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mermaid	case
6	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund				the mermaid's sorrow			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sorrow=Location
2	sorrow		the mermaid						nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing so loud the toad fell over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fell	csubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 loud	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Laughing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 toad	det
5	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laughing	obl:unmarked
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund		the toad				loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall over	past	Laughing					over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Crying so hard her eyes ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ran	csubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 hard	advmod
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Crying	advmod
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crying	obj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund		her eyes				hard property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic
2	run	past	Crying						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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