Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…
Mad, what's in that forest, though?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: forest
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forest | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 forest | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forest | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mad | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 though | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 1 Mad | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that forest | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Polypi that grab everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polypi | polypi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 grab | nsubj |
| 3 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Polypi | acl:relcl |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 grab | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | Polypi | everything | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
Option 2
Polypi with arms that grab and drown anything passing near
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polypi | Polypi | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 arms | case |
| 3 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Polypi | nmod |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 grab | nsubj |
| 5 | grab | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arms | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drown | cc |
| 7 | drown | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grab | conj |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 drown | obj |
| 9 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 anything | acl |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 passing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | arms | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drown | present | arms not said here | anything | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | near property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Huge fish with long teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 teeth | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teeth | amod |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fish | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Weeds that drag you down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 drag | nsubj |
| 3 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Weeds | acl:relcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 drag | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 drag | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag down | present | Weeds | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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