Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…
Is the mermaid still going to be happy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, go · To what, where: mermaid
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mermaid | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mermaid | det |
| 3 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | csubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 happy | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happy | cop |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 going | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the mermaid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | still | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | happy property | tree rules |
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
Yes, she thought love would save her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 save | aux |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save | would | love | her = she | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, very happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 happy | advmod |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, she was sure she'd be sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sad | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sad | cop |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sure | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | she | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | she | sad property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she felt her heart would break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 break | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 break | aux |
| 8 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 felt | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | she | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | would | her heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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