--- title: Mate, the mermaid just wants some kid off the king, innit? — Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince a… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, the mermaid just wants some kid off the king, innit? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1228-pg3282-part29/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1228-pg3282-part29/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part… Mate, the mermaid just wants some kid off the king, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** want, innit · **To what, where:** kid This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1228-pg3282-part29/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1228-pg3282-part29:t1:1 # text = Mate, the mermaid just wants some kid off the king, innit? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 off off ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 innit innit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | Mate and the mermaid | some kid | | | | off the king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme | | 2 | **innit** | infinitive | Mate and the mermaid *not said here* | | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Yeah, the king's gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1228-pg3282-part29:t1:o1:1 # text = Yeah, the king's gold 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Yeah, his first kid, the eldest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1228-pg3282-part29:t1:o2:1 # text = Yeah, his first kid, the eldest 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, she wants his crown, innit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1228-pg3282-part29:t1:o3:1 # text = Nah, she wants his crown, innit 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | present | she | his crown and innit | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crown=Theme | | 2 | **crown** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, the first child born to him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1228-pg3282-part29:t1:o4:1 # text = Yeah, the first child born to him 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | the first child *not said here* | child | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | **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. 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