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title: which one was the cutest, the baby sister? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mer… · tree and pragmatics
description: which one was the cutest, the baby sister? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the s…

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which one was the cutest, the baby sister?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 876 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 87: the sea-princesses dream of the world above the waves» 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/876-pg27200-part87/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t5:1
# text = which one was the cutest, the baby sister?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cutest	cut	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which one |  |  |  |  | the baby sister *obl*; cut *property* | tree rules |

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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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the second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t5:o1:1
# text = the second
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the one who was prettiest of all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t5:o2:1
# text = the one who was prettiest of all
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | of all; pretty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the prettiest and smallest one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t5:o3:1
# text = the prettiest and smallest one
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	conj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the youngest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:876-pg27200-part87:t5:o4:1
# text = the youngest
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	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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