Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…
so the daughters of the air are like fairies, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughters · What happens: be
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | _ | 9 fairies | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughters | det |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fairies | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughters | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fairies | cop |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 fairies | case |
| 9 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fairies | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 9 fairies | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 fairies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the daughters of the air | like fairies | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they help people to earn souls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 help | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 earn | mark |
| 7 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 8 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 earn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | they | people | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | people not said here | souls | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, kinda, they cool air and do kind things to earn souls over years
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 cool | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cool | punct |
| 3 | kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 6 cool | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cool | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cool | nsubj |
| 6 | cool | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cool | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cool | conj |
| 10 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 earn | mark |
| 13 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 things | acl |
| 14 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 earn | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 earn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cool | present | they | air | kinda property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | present | they not said here | kind things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | earn | to-infinitive | they not said here | souls | year | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they do good deeds to earn souls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deeds | amod |
| 6 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 earn | mark |
| 8 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | advcl |
| 9 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 earn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | they | good deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | they not said here | souls | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
Option 4
Yeah, they do good deeds in warm lands to earn immortal souls
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deeds | amod |
| 6 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lands | case |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 earn | mark |
| 11 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | advcl |
| 12 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 souls | amod |
| 13 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 earn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | they | good deeds | warm lands | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | they not said here | immortal souls | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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