Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Why did the polypi let her go?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 let	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 polypi	det
4	polypi	polypi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the polypi	her = she					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They got scared when the mermaid screamed loudly in the dark bog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 screamed	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mermaid	det
6	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screamed	nsubj
7	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	advcl
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 screamed	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 bog	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bog	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bog	amod
12	bog	bog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	scream speech: express	past	the mermaid			the dark bog		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bog=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They freaked out at the glowing potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 freaked	nsubj
2	freaked	freak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 freaked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 potion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 potion	det
6	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 potion	amod
7	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freak out	past	They			the glowing potion			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They got scared by the strong witch's smell and the bubbling pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 smell	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smell	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 witch	case
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pot	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pot	det
12	bubbling	bubbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	compound
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					by the strong witch's smell and the bubbling pot; scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	smell		the strong witch						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They got scared of the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 witch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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