Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

did the prince even know what she did for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: do, know · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the prince		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	know	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past	she		for him = he	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Nah, he never knew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 knew	advmod
5	knew	know	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	not know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he had no clue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he had no clue at all what she had done for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 clue	det
6	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 what	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 what	nsubj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 had	obl
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 what	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	no clue					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient
2	do	past · perfect	she					for him = he	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, he knew everything she had done for him on the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 knew	obj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 knew	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 done	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he	everything					tree rules
2	do	past · perfect	she			the ship		for him = he	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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