Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…
yo, did the mermaid actually stab the prince or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stab · To what, where: mermaid, prince
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» 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 | yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mermaid | det |
| 5 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 stab | advmod |
| 7 | stab | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stab | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 stab | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the mermaid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stab | present | the prince | actually property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, she chucked the knife in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 chucked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chucked | nsubj |
| 4 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chucked | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chucked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | past | she | the knife | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in sea=Destination |
Option 2
Yeah, she stabbed him in the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stabbed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stabbed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | she | him = he | the heart | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in heart=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, she stabbed him in the heart and then fell into the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stabbed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | stabbed | stab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stabbed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stabbed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 fell | advmod |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stabbed | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stab | past | she | him = he | the heart | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in heart=Location | |||
| 2 | fall | past | she not said here | then | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
Option 4
Nah, she chucked the knife in the sea and then jumped in after it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 chucked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chucked | nsubj |
| 4 | chucked | chuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chucked | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chucked | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jumped | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 jumped | advmod |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chucked | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 jumped | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuck | past | she | the knife | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme in sea=Destination | |||
| 2 | jump in | past | she not said here | after sea; then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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