Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…
what do they get for a good kid, like a proper reward?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: get
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 get | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 kid | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kid | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kid | amod |
| 8 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reward | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 reward | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reward | det |
| 12 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reward | amod |
| 13 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · do-support | they | for a good kid; like a proper reward | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for kid=Beneficiary |
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
They get a shiny soul
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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 soul | det |
| 4 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soul | amod |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | They | a shiny soul | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soul=Stimulus |
Option 2
Shorter wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 wait | amod |
| 2 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Their wait is cut shorter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wait | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 cut | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | Their wait | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 4
They get wings and gold
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 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gold | cc |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wings | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | They | wings and gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wing=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/881-pg27200-part92/t9/