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title: Which feature identifies the mermaid who offers the King assistance? — Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which feature identifies the mermaid who offers the King assistance? Exam question 4 of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 4 · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…

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Which feature identifies the mermaid who offers the King assistance?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** feature, mermaid · **What happens:** identify, offer · **To what, where:** mermaid, King assistance

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1424-pg503-part11/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:e4:1
# text = Which feature identifies the mermaid who offers the King assistance?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	identifies	identify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offers	offer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | present | which feature | the mermaid |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | present | the mermaid | the King assistance |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Scales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:e4:o1:1
# text = Scales
1	Scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A tail resembling that of a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:e4:o2:1
# text = A tail resembling that of a fish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | gerund | a tail *not said here* | a tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A long shimmering tail covered in silver scales that glitter in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:e4:o3:1
# text = A long shimmering tail covered in silver scales that glitter in the sun
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	shimmering	shimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	glitter	glitter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | a long shimmering tail *not said here* |  |  |  | in silver scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scale=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | present | silver scales |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Legs like a bird's feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:e4:o4:1
# text = Legs like a bird's feet
1	Legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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