Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

did she turn into foam straight away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: turn · To what, where: foam

This is test 7 · ★ 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 foam	case
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	she			foam		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into foam=Trajectory

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, she swam back to shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 shore	case
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim back	past	she			shore			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, she turned into foam right on the spot in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 foam	case
6	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 spot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spot	det
10	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she			foam		on the spot; in the sea; right property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into foam=Source on spot=Trajectory in sea=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she rose up into the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 rose	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	she			the air			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yeah, she dissolved into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dissolved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dissolved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dissolved	nsubj
4	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	participle	she					into the sea result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into sea=Result

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