Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Sick, what did the potion look like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, potion · What happens: sick, look

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 look	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 potion	det
6	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sick	conj
8	like	like	ADP	_	7 look	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	look	past · do-support	the potion						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

A sparkling jewel on the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 jewel	det
2	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jewel	amod
3	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jewel	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A twinkling star in her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 star	det
2	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	compound
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 star	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A glowing ball of red light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ball	det
2	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 ball	amod
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 light	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ball	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A thick green liquid that smelled of rotten fish and gave off steam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 liquid	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 liquid	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 liquid	amod
4	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 smelled	nsubj
6	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liquid	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fish	case
8	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smelled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 smelled	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 gave	compound:prt
13	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	a thick green liquid					of rotten fish	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of fish=Theme
2	give off	past	a thick green liquid not said here	steam					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source steam=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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