Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

so what's the deal with the sisters' hair, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 deal	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 deal	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 deal	det
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 hair	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hair	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 sisters	case
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the deal and mate				with the sisters's hair	tree rules

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

They chopped it off for the witch so she could make a potion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 make	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chopped	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 potion	det
13	potion	potion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	They	it				for the witch	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	make	could	she	a potion					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potion=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They gave it to the old witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 witch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	it	the old witch				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to witch=Recipient

Option 3

They chopped off all their long hair and gave it to the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hair	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hair	amod
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chopped	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 witch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 witch	det
13	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	They	their long hair					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	give	past	They not said here	hair	the witch				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to witch=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They chopped it off for the witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 chopped	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 witch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 witch	det
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop off	past	They	it				for the witch	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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