Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 90: the m…

Did the mermaid go back to the palace party?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mermaid · What happens: go back

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mermaid	det
3	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 party	det
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 party	compound
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past · do-support	the mermaid						vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Yeah, she danced

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 danced	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 danced	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 danced	nsubj
4	danced	dance	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	dance	past	she						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nope, she was too sad to go in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	xcomp
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					sad property	tree rules
2	go in	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, but she was too shy to dance with the prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 shy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shy	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 shy	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 shy	advmod
7	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dance	mark
9	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shy	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					shy property	tree rules
2	dance	to-infinitive	she not said here					with the prince	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nope, she was ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 ill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ill	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ill	cop
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					ill property	tree rules

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