Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 91: the m…

the grandma came up too, right? with a silver crown?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandma · What happens: come up

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grandma	det
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	3 came	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 crown	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crown	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crown	compound
12	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the grandma					with a silver crown	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

nah, just the sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sisters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 sisters	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sisters	det
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

yeah, but she didn't come as close to land as the sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 close	advmod
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 come	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 land	case
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 sisters	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sisters	det
14	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · do-support	she					as the sisters; close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nope, she stayed far below the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	advmod
6	below	below	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			the water		far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below water=Location

Option 4

nah, she stayed under the waves and never came up near the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 waves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 waves	det
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stayed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 ship	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	she			the waves			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under wave=Location
2	not come up	past	she not said here			the ship			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ship=Location

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