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title: Dude, what does the mermaid have for legs? — Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, what does the mermaid have for legs? Test 9 · ★ 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 the question and of each option; 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…

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Dude, what does the mermaid have for legs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mermaid · **What happens:** have

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This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t9:1
# text = Dude, what does the mermaid have for legs?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | the mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a fish tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t9:o1:1
# text = a fish tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t9:o2:1
# text = a tail
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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bird feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t9:o3:1
# text = bird feet
1	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1424-pg503-part11:t9:o4:1
# text = fins
1	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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