--- title: Is the Mermaid on the King's side, or nah? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Is the Mermaid on the King's side, or nah? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1425-pg503-part12/t8/) [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/) / [Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1425-pg503-part12/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'… Is the Mermaid on the King's side, or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Mermaid, side This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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/1425-pg503-part12/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t8:1 # text = Is the Mermaid on the King's side, or nah? 1 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | the Mermaid | | the King's side | | | 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, she helps him fool the Fairy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t8:o1:1 # text = Yeah, she helps him fool the Fairy 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 fool fool VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | she | him *= he* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **fool** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | the Fairy | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, she helps him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t8:o2:1 # text = Yeah, she helps him 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | she | | him *= he* | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, she fights him ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t8:o3:1 # text = Nah, she fights him 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 fights fight VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | present | she | him *= he* | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Nah, she actually sides with the Fairy here ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1425-pg503-part12:t8:o4:1 # text = Nah, she actually sides with the Fairy here 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 actually actually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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