Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 91: the m…

did the prince catch her singing? i'm dying to know

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, i · What happens: catch, sing, die, know · To what, where: her

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 880 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 91: the mermaid gets legs, dances for the prince, and sails away with him» 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 catch	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dying	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 catch	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 dying	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dying	aux
10	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 know	mark
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	the prince	her = she	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the prince not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present · progressive	i		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know	to-infinitive	i not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

yeah he heard her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 heard	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	her = she					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 2

nope, she sang once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she					once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

yes, he heard her sing softly at his door each night and loved it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 sing	nmod:poss
6	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 door	nmod:poss
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl:unmarked
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 loved	cc
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	he	her sing		his door	night	softly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus
2	love	past	he not said here	sing					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nope, she can't sing, she's dumb, and only the slave sings

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	10 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sing	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sing	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sing	advmod
6	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 nope	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dumb	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dumb	cop
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sings	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sings	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 slave	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 slave	det
15	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sings	nsubj
16	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 dumb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express	can	she		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	is	present	she	dumb property	tree rules
3	sing speech: express	present	the slave		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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