Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 91: the m…

ngl the sisters are so sad, right, they're just wringing their hands out there

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl sisters, sisters · What happens: be, wring · To what, where: hands

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sisters	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sisters	det
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sad	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wringing	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	13 wringing	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wringing	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wringing	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 wringing	advmod
13	wringing	wring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sad	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wringing	obj
16	out	out	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 wringing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ngl sisters					sad property	tree rules
2	wring	present · progressive	sisters = sister	sisters's hands		there			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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

nah, they're cheerful and wave with their pale hands at the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheerful	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheerful	cop
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wave	cc
7	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheerful	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wave	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 ship	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					cheerful property	tree rules
2	wave	present	they not said here			the ship		with their pale hands	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ship=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they look happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they					happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they look mournful and beg with their white hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 look	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beg	cc
7	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	they					with their white hands; mournful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	beg speech: request	present	they not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, they're laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughing	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	they						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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