Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

how come nobody saw her on the ship at the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: see · To what, where: her, ship

This is test 12 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nobody	amod
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	nobody	her = she		the ship	at the end		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

Cos she was unseen like the air folk, flying above the ship at night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 unseen	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unseen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unseen	cop
4	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 folk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folk	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 folk	compound
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unseen	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 unseen	advcl
11	above	above	ADP	_	13 ship	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ship	det
13	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like the air folk; unseen property	tree rules
2	fly	gerund	she not said here			the ship	night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above ship=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos she turned into a spirit of the air and floated off the ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 turned	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 spirit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spirit	det
6	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spirit	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 floated	cc
11	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 ship	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ship	det
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she			a spirit of the air			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into spirit=Trajectory
2	float	participle	she not said here			the ship			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off ship=Trajectory

Option 3

Cos she was hidden like a ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 hidden	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux:pass
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · passive		she				like a ghost	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she was unseen like the air folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 unseen	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unseen	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unseen	cop
4	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 folk	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folk	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 folk	compound
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unseen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					like the air folk; unseen property	tree rules

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